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by SpicyLemonZest 2001 days ago
Many applications are big enough that no single person can hold the full details of what’s being released in their head. If a release contains a hundred changes from a dozen teams, there’s no way a VP or CTO sitting on top can understand them all in any depth, so “performance improvements + bug fixes” may well be the full contents of the 30,000 foot view.

That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to produce more detailed notes for a big application, but it’s a pretty involved process basically requiring a “release note manager”, not something that happens by default.