[some1else]

Regarding the "paste without formatting by default" opinion:

- Pasting a body of text with multiple headlines between two documents would require using a special paste command that explicitly preserves formatting.

- Some benefits of "convention over configuration" are only present if you stick to your existing conventions. Millions of people are already used to explicitly pasting without formatting.

Other remarks:

- Opinions need to be informed by facts and customer-facing research.

- There is room for divergent (Yes AND) thinking, as well as convergent (Just say no) thinking in product design. See "Double Diamond"[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Diamond_(design_process...

[hexa22]

There are certainly two use cases here. One is pasting complex blocks where you want the whole thing to copy over. And the other is copying text out of an email or website where you want it treated as dumb text.

Word actually offers a solution with the “paste without formatting” but it’s lost behind the million features of word.

[some1else]

> Word actually offers a solution with the “paste without formatting” but it’s lost behind the million features of word.

Yes. The Tweet was advocating for making that the default paste logic.

[HermanMartinus]

As an anecdote, Bear Blog https://bearblog.dev was created for a very specific kind of person and has been cracking along well because of it.