Yes I'll grant there are some stable proprietary products. Those that get dubbed "industry standard" are fixed in place because breaking things would lead to a

Yes I'll grant there are some stable proprietary products. Those that get dubbed "industry standard" are fixed in place because breaking things would lead to a huge revolt of paying customers. And, to be fair there are Free Open Source applications that are chaotic - forever being forked and losing maintainers or having petty internal political spats. But I think the comment below us by ozim nails it better; that there's a commercial incentive to keep changing stuff just for it's own sake, to lend the appearance of adding value.