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"the modern webapp experience is so miserable for the average person." Hyperbole. Web apps would not be so ubiquitous and popular for solving business problem

• brandonmenc 4y ago
  The gulf between "showing up in person and waiting in line at the bank" and "performant web app" covers a lot of ground, most of it shitty and frustrating, and that easily can be many times better than it currently is. But yeah, I guess you're not waiting in line at the bank anymore.
• happytoexplain 4y ago
  It's not hyperbole, IMO, and this format of rationale is faulty. There are many reasons why technologies and platforms become ubiquitous. Asserting that being ubiquitous means it can't also be miserable for the user is demonstrably false, with almost unlimited examples throughout software history.
  • blahblah1234567 4y ago
    Ok, I agree, Point taken. However almost certainly ubuitity is one measure or factor in an item's usefulness. I'd also claim Usefulness inversely correlates with miserableness in the mind, but perhaps not in practice :P depending on how boring or miserable useful things are. In general, I think usefulness overrides miserableness simply because the willingness to do useful things, despite miserableness, is clearly tolerated and performed all across human economies and societies through time. all just depends on definitions