> Meh. Any significant interface change is going to annoy some users Your example is unfortunately worse than just interface change. It is also worse than just

> Meh. Any significant interface change is going to annoy some users Your example is unfortunately worse than just interface change. It is also worse than just usability degradation. It is about why and how this change could take place to begin with. For the case of chromium, I think this is just change for change's sake, so that some team can get promoted, some director can justify their existence. I wouldn't blame the team for wanting to get promoted, but I would blame the process that allocated world class engineers and designers to a task that was not only redundant but also ended up being a net negative to its users. This was a process that obviously couldn't integrate user feedback, that couldn't decide "you know what, let's not release this until these issues are addressed" probably because it "had" to be released at that arbitrary deadline. This is like paperclip maximizer, only it is not artificial intelligence but corporate intelligence destroying the world one useless launch at a time.