[hp]

yeah, it's a tradeoff. If the software does more, then the software is more complex... OK, but, sometimes it's nice that it does more. People are used to other systems (iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS) and those are setting the bar pretty high. They are all extremely complex systems that do a lot.

Everyone wants a simple system... as long as it has just this one thing that they need... and this one other thing...

This author seems to feel there was some way in which the software could do everything it does and there would be no downsides... you know, here and there in some detail it's probably true that the tradeoff is wrong. But that's just saying "all software could be better" or "all software has bugs" or something - true, but not an actionable insight.

I get the guy's frustration. But you know, there's no need to wrap the emotion up in non-factual hypotheses about source code that one is not familiar with.

Software sucks. We all know it. Using your imagination to diagnose why isn't going to get anyone anywhere ;-)

There probably are some improvements possible if we all go look at the source and get the real info.