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>Tech has been moving in the direction of oversimplifying technology Completely agree with that. There's an animator (nina paley) that keeps an old computer wi

>Tech has been moving in the direction of oversimplifying technology Completely agree with that. There's an animator (nina paley) that keeps an old computer with Macromedia Flash on it for the sake of keeping that sweet spot of software power or complexity and creativity. It's weird seeing productivity tools reduce and guide their functionality towards what the devs think we mean to use the tool for. Getting more power and more complexity is still desirable in production. The ML procedural tools coming in productivity software will help with that, but the overall design ethos has been to cut out and simplify things that didn't need to go.

buboard 7y ago
And i know a musician who uses a commodore 64 - agreed though, that 's on a different level > guide their functionality towards what the devs think we mean I think it's the fault of management. Software used to always have a few quirky buttons that almost nobody used, yet they were there for the sake of completeness. But ever since quarterly corporate revenue and engagement turned to a penile size contest, it's all about the bottom line. If it doesnt affect our bottom line, cut it off, which ends up leaving people with little more than a Skinner box in their hands.