Comment by robotresearcher

We used to document things. Apple had a series of beautiful books documenting ‘Inside Macintosh’. Visual C++ used to come with 14 inches of decent books.

Then books gave way to the web and there was no longer a publishing deadline or copy editor and we just kinda stopped caring. The users still cared, but many producers stopped.

We had an art and we gave it up. Not completely, but substantially.