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As a consumer affected by this bug, sure, you may find it inexcusable. But the basic truth about any mature software product used by tens of millions is that th
by zaidf 10y ago
As a consumer affected by this bug, sure, you may find it inexcusable. But the basic truth about any mature software product used by tens of millions is that there will be a laundry list of bugs competing for limited resources. So there will always be bugs that you want to fix but simply isn't a high enough priority relative to all the other bugs or features.
- Dylan16807 10y agoThere are limited resources, but there are enough resources to improve the architecture over more than a decade. And if they decided to avoid architecture changes, there would be nothing in the way of throwing lots of siloed software engineers at bugs to get more of them fixed. They're not lacking for money with so many customers. It's possible for them to set a much more inclusive cutoff. They could have fewer bugs per feature than almost any other product after being stable and popular for so long. But they choose not to make that a goal.