[samus]

> I can only imagine that they make this process so // difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination.

They also don't want anybody building a dependency on that sh*t, which would prevent them from ever cleaning up the mess.

[m463]

I think there's been a dependency since day 1. For example, I have lots of photos scanned in the 90's with my old (old old) scanner, and they are in .psd format. Which for instance, macos can still preview.

[mdaniel]

That ship has sailed: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ and, of course, the obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1172/

When I read that rant comment, I thought of "oh, so it's microservices writing to a shared byte array" in a nod to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law