I blame modern software development methodologies which value feature pushing and ceremonies above well working basic functionality. Look at something like the

I blame modern software development methodologies which value feature pushing and ceremonies above well working basic functionality. Look at something like the CCC video streaming site. Hyper focused on its thing, works wonders, developed entirely by volunteers with the help of academia. If volunteers can do something on a shoestring budget, why can't Disney or Amazon with close to unlimited budgets approach even a fraction of the usability?