Software like this doesn't get written in someone's garage. There was almost certainly a team behind it, including a dedicated product manager. The product mana

Software like this doesn't get written in someone's garage. There was almost certainly a team behind it, including a dedicated product manager. The product manager made a decision not to prioritize performance. On one hand, it seems a clear failure. On the other hand, it's hard to judge these kinds of decisions from the outside. The product seems to be successful; the customer paid for it and installed it in ambulances. Maybe if they'd focused on performance instead of adding feature XYZ, or increased the price by adding a faster CPU, the customer would have bought something else. Your competition checks more boxes, therefore must be better! Mostly when I see shitty software, I think not "who wrote this?" but "who bought this?"