Most of what you’re describing is the result of extreme conservatism from project leadership to not offend anyone in order to have the widest possible market sh

Most of what you’re describing is the result of extreme conservatism from project leadership to not offend anyone in order to have the widest possible market share. In film, you can have sanitized homogeneous filler made by a a corpo focus group, or a genuine artistic statement from a single visionary director. So what we could use more of, in independent software developers willing to be bold. There was a time when Apple was the bold and transgressive one. Or at least they wanted you to think they were. Compared IBM it’s not that wrong.