I am so sick of this mentality that seems to raise aesthetic distractions, "new features!!!111", and pointless, frequent version changes over code quality and r

I am so sick of this mentality that seems to raise aesthetic distractions, "new features!!!111", and pointless, frequent version changes over code quality and reusability. It is a sign that this area of commercial software dev has been almost completely subsumed by marketeers and business hacks; while they may not control GTK (though I honestly don't know/care who does), it is clear that their influence (gotta have the latest new and shiny!) has crowded out other, more prosaic concerns (like stability and compatibility). A lot can be said about Microsoft's code, but I have always admired just how much effort they go through to preserve API compatibility. (Going so far as to version specific functions and including older versions so as to not break stuff -- TwiddleBit1(), TwiddleBit2(), and so on. But on another note it's a problem with we programmers as well. We're so distractable... you can see it everyday here on HN... "Show HN" is virtually a graveyard of half-baked, re-hashed ideas implemented in shiny new frameworks. Unicorns trying to take over the world write long-form blog-posts describing their tech (but leaving out enough details to let you try it yourself or duplicate it!) to keep us programmer-types distracted and submissive ('it's better they gawk at code than question our motives') with their pointless show-and-tells. Also... I am god damn sick and tired of dealing with updates! Stop updating your damn code so much!!!!!!!!! Or even better... get it right the first time! (It can be done!)