[abruzzi]

> then they made it again in rewriting Quattro Pro from scratch and astonishing people with how few features it had.

This reminds me of Final Cut Pro X. From an abstract code-base standpoint, it was much improved. Many people on the nets (that probably never used FCP) tried to cover for it with excuses like "it's a 1.0 product" or "just don't upgrade", but from a user standpoint, the rewrite left behind enough features that it became unusable to many people (myself included) that owned, used, and loved the previous version.

As developers, we need to do projects for ourselves (like code cleanups, and rearcitecting) but we need to understand the user impact first.