> the amount of people who have deeply engaged with any topic is very low compared to the number of people who have shallowly engaged with it I've been feeling

> the amount of people who have deeply engaged with any topic is very low compared to the number of people who have shallowly engaged with it I've been feeling this more and more in relation to software. It feels like the more popular a piece of software is and the more people use it, the harder it is to find and talk to users of said software who have engaged with it past an extremely "shallow" level. I constantly encounter significant, easy to reproduce bugs and issues in very popular software used by millions of people, maybe even tens or hundreds of millions, but if I try to look for any sort of discussion about it online, I usually get nothing. It feels much easier to discuss software with other real people who use it and think about how they use it when it's something really niche used by maybe a few thousand people at most.