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by cyberax 292 days ago
> or of what venture capitalists believe about software network effects

It's not always that. After some time, software gets to a state where it's near the local maximum for usability. So any changes make the software _less_ usable.

But you don't get promoted in large tech companies unless you make changes. So that's how we get stuff like "liquid glass" or Android's UI degradatation.