This narrative repeats with every release. But is each release actually worse than the last? My guess is, not really, though the perception persists for a cou

This narrative repeats with every release. But is each release actually worse than the last? My guess is, not really, though the perception persists for a couple main reasons: (1) For a certain subset of people, the last release really was worse than ever before. New releases have new bugs, and those bugs will affect a certain subset of people that isn't necessarily the same as the bug from the last release. Those people complain (justifiably, I think) though of course people don't create a lot of posts to describe the problems they aren't having. (2) We all naturally forget about the annoyances of years past while focusing on the current annoyances. (Generally, that is.)