"but that is not enough for me to put up with a decidedly dowdy app that exists not to delight its customers but instead meet the growth objectives of its stock

"but that is not enough for me to put up with a decidedly dowdy app that exists not to delight its customers but instead meet the growth objectives of its stock market masters." I have the same problem with every modern day app. They are earning 100s of millions, but instead of making the apps better/faster for the main feature which sells them, everyone is just in the hot pursuit of cramming more and more features in so that they can get more users somehow (which is what the board/stock market cares about). No one gives a second thought about the existing user who uses 1-2 features of the app, and wants them to be simple, better, faster and easier. I also think a lot of it also has to be blamed for iterative "Agile" development model where every 2 weeks, every team has to showcase something "new", this takes a toll right from product management to development. Cargo culting product development / growth hacking etc.