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I think good had (and maybe still) good product teams. For example I'm regularly amazed at small features in Maps that make my life easier. What's missing is t

• hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
  > For example I'm regularly amazed at small features in Maps that make my life easier. While I generally agree that Maps is a great and amazing product, I really feel that it is now suffering "peak product" syndrome like MS Word circa late 90s/early 00s. That is, I think Maps was probably "optimal" about 2 or 3 years ago, but since then there has been so much organizational pressure to do something new and add features than each successive version gets worse overall with feature bloat. Yes, some of those new features are useful, but overall I have less and less screen real estate taken up by the actual map and more and more taken up by shit I usually don't care about.
  • ceejayoz 7y ago
    Agreed entirely. I struggle at times to figure out how to get directions between two places in the new Maps UI in a way I never used to. Same thing with Gmail - what was once zippy and performant-feeling now feels like swimming through molasses.