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unfortunately this is an inherent property of a system (software in this case) that punishes stability and rewards changes for the sake of changes if you don't
by taminka 1y ago
unfortunately this is an inherent property of a system (software in this case) that punishes stability and rewards changes for the sake of changes
if you don't modify your library, app, OS, etc for 2 years, it's perceived as abandoned or obsolete, meaning even if you're achieved perfection in your product in terms of ui, you can't stay there, you must move forward and break it (i'm not talking about bugs or security vulnerabilities here, only the functionality itself)
prominent example is w/ microsoft word, where they kept adding an absurd number of features simply bc they felt like they had to, since ppl were paying for it, and this will KEEP HAPPENING TO EVERYONE so long as the software keeps moving at breakneck speed and backwards compatibility and stability are thrown out of the window...
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoYup. That’s one of the great things about the OXO stuff we have. I have a new vegetable peeler, that replaced one we had for over a decade. It’s basically, exactly the same one. I suspect the parts would be interchangeable. I think that Apple’s Snow Leopard MacOS release was almost identical, in surface features, to its predecessor, but is considered one of their best releases, ever, because it fixed so many bugs, and improved a lot of important functionality. Internally, it also established a technical fabric for the new architecture, but that wasn’t visible to users.