Apps Getting Worse

There have been discussions here about whether or not it is a good
sign that a program no longer evolves and just stays what it is (which
one of the goals of Gemini). In this good article, Tim Bray explains
why programs change and why it is often a bad idea.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/07/Apps-Get-Worse

He does make a few great points about why things happen. I can't agree with
the conclusion. At all

PMs rarely have time to think up stuff for consumers. They are busy
collecting the feedback of users, consumers. In B2C at least. And literally
everyone has an opinion of what's missing in a product, or two or three
opinions. And that's why things go downhill. Some people like to swipe
left, others swipe down. You can't have both.

Things like protocols and frameworks and libraries can be feature complete.
In theory. If you have a modular thing, and you are bold enough to claim
that it's feature complete. Most people who build something that takes off
don't have the balls to claim that. Maybe because they fear their product
gets forked or someone passes by that takes the headstart and makes a
better product, as if that was a bad thing.

There is some good in progressing forward, but if everyone is doing it, the
good in standing still gets lost. That's how I see it at least

~m

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> There have been discussions here about whether or not it is a good
> sign that a program no longer evolves and just stays what it is (which
> one of the goals of Gemini). In this good article, Tim Bray explains
> why programs change and why it is often a bad idea.
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> https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/07/Apps-Get-Worse
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