[eCa]

> People may prefer the English experience because they expect the translated version to be inferior

No, it is not about expectations. In +95% of cases[1] the localized[2] version is objectively worse, to the point where it often only is possible for me to understand by first translating it back to English.

If you give me a localized version first, and don’t give me an obvious way to permanently choose English, I’m likely gone.

[1] Mostly excluding the big ones (MS, Apple, etc), but quite often they fail too

[2] My first language is one of the smaller European languages (<20M speakers), perhaps bigger languages have higher quality.

[lucb1e]

I think that's exactly what the author meant.

[tester756]

>[1] Mostly excluding the big ones (MS, Apple, etc), but quite often they fail too

MS docs

I mean they're good when displayed in English, but defaulting to "native_language" is annoying.