"not breaking things they like" is a very low bar for building a great product
To be honest building things this way seems like such a competitive disadvantage I don't see how it could ever work at scale. Certainly all the big players are using them. If we shake our heads at the little players doing the same, we're just going to widen the moat
how do you build a product without analytics? how do you measure the success and failure of every change?
You know that generations of engineers built and sold products without spying on their users.
Many users tend to be pretty vocal when changes break things they like, you don't need to spy on them for that. Mail readers > analytics frameworks.
"not breaking things they like" is a very low bar for building a great product
To be honest building things this way seems like such a competitive disadvantage I don't see how it could ever work at scale. Certainly all the big players are using them. If we shake our heads at the little players doing the same, we're just going to widen the moat