Lab equipment software has hardly been the pinnacle of desktop software. Even native desktop evangelists moan about the quality of some of that software. So I w

Lab equipment software has hardly been the pinnacle of desktop software. Even native desktop evangelists moan about the quality of some of that software. So I wouldn't use that as your benchmark given they're already known to be generally below par. In fact I'd go further than that and say lab software is notorious for having terrible UX. I can assure you that plenty of good software did exist. I know this because I wrote some of it ;)