Comment by Gigachad
3 days ago
Devs and power users create something like libreoffice or thunderbird. They are incredibly resistant to any change for any reason and hang on to what they already know rather than what’s best.
The reality is most people actually like the stuff Apple and such are putting out and like modern UX more. The only bad stuff is deliberate enshitification which is pushed by financial incentives rather than product people being incompetent.
The financial incentives draw incompetent people.
It’s happened with finance, law, management consulting, and now software.
But software has been lucrative for very long time at this point. Can you say that the quality went downhill more than a decade ago?
I personally do agree that when I see an update I feel something between annoyance or dread (what is broken this time?).