Software isn't terrible. People just focus on the rare programs that are and then over-generalize for clicks. The Windows calculator app needs a splash screen b

Software isn't terrible. People just focus on the rare programs that are and then over-generalize for clicks. The Windows calculator app needs a splash screen because Windows has been in a spiral of tech debt and decline for decades, and their new frameworks are all badly optimized. The calculator apps on every other platform start fast and work fine. I just started Calculator.app on an old Intel MacBook and it took less than a second. We all use mountains of software every day that isn't terrible. Think about the gazillions of lines of code that go into anything made by Apple, or Google. It all works well and we don't think about it. The article complains about "language servers", which suck because they were invented for VS Code which is still relatively new and it's all open source so there isn't much of a business model. But that's not "software", that's a poor choice of IDE. Buy a JetBrains IDE and marvel at the fact that it isn't terrible. Reality is that software is way better than it once was. Standards are so much higher now. When I started with computers it was expected that to get any program to run at all you'd need to find a local wizard first. I spent way too much of my childhood frantically repacking MS-DOS 640kb low mem to try and get the latest game demo running, or reallocating IRQs to try and get the new Sound Blaster to work at the same time as my mouse. Five years later Plug'n'Play was mostly working, Windows mostly worked, but it was expected that every app you bought would crash every five minutes. Consumer software that didn't crash like crazy was a sort of mythical science fiction scenario. Additionally, EVERY app had a splash screen, because hard disks were so freaking slow and RAM was so scarce that starting even an app that'd be considered very simple by today's standards would spend a minute just flushing everything else you had loaded out to swap, including things that you probably needed, like the Start button. In 2024 things like starting fast and not crashing all the time are table stakes, which is why programs that fail to meet that standard stick out like a sore thumb. Software that's considered actually good will probably have a gazillion features, be updated every week without ever failing, will back up all your data indefinitely and automatically for free, maybe have collaboration features, be translated into a bazillion languages, have responsive UI, work on every device you own, and be insanely cheap or even free. Computers are amazing. Software is also amazing!