> Software simply does a lot more than it used to. A lot of people are complaining about chat clients. Today's chat client is a lot more complicated. Sure, go b

> Software simply does a lot more than it used to. A lot of people are complaining about chat clients. Today's chat client is a lot more complicated. Sure, go back and use IRC from thirty years ago. Do you remember all those commands? slash-something? True enough. Modern software does a lot of extra stuff that the user neither asked for, nor wants. This is a double hit to software quality. Not only is there the added complexity of all that crap in the code base, but the intentional "crapification" when everything is working as intended. A recent example: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/assassins-creed-in-game-ads-a-technical-error-says-ubisoft-lets-hope-so https://www.tomsguide.com/news/assassins-creed-in-game-ads-a...