> Like, modern client devs know to keep slow operations off the GUI thread whereas back then very few apps were threaded so hung windows that wouldn't repaint w

> Like, modern client devs know to keep slow operations off the GUI thread whereas back then very few apps were threaded so hung windows that wouldn't repaint were standard. Maybe things are going great among people who write native software that uses native UI libraries. In games, users of the most popular game framework have been asking the framework developers for the ability to poll inputs on a thread that isn't also the render thread for 14 years and counting.