[LennyHenrysNuts]

And I had to come here to find out what it actually was. Why don't project pages ever actually tell you what it is, what it does and how it does it?

Half the time it's something like "Plorglewurzle leverages your big data block chain to provide sublinear microservices to Azure Cloud infrastructures"

At least this one kind of shows you having to install Windows.

[Hobadee]

I call this the "marketing website problem".

Unfortunately many companies have realized that engineers don't make purchasing decisions. (Mearly suggestions) Rather, C-Suite, who knows nothing about the technical side of things, and everything about the buzzword side, makes the decisions. As a result, companies know that if they just throw a bunch of inflated marketing mumbo-jumbo at the user, while it will turn off every engineer asking "WTF does this actually do and how does it work", some C-Suite will run out and purchase it without asking, then force their entire team to use it because it "produces synergy of the AI block chain and big data cloud APIs while enhancing productivity". Then us Engineers are stuck using it, whether we wanted it or not.

[BobbyTables2]

Agree. Have even seen too many companies whose main product completely avoids such questions. I don’t get it.

Must be why I’m not wealthy. I always figured one would have to show people a reason why they should give boat loads of money…

[rbanffy]

> Must be why I’m not wealthy. I always figured one would have to show people a reason why they should give boat loads of money…

This one hit hard. It turns out Phineas Barnum was right this whole time.

[hypfer]

> Why don't project pages ever actually tell you what it is

If it's a good thing with substance, they do.

If they don't, don't use it. This usually hints at a broken culture/missing substance. It _can_ also be ineptitude, but that too is not your problem but theirs.

You woke up this morning not having the problem this sets out to solve. You can go to sleep and rest easily this night, knowing that you still don't have whatever problem this sets out to solve.

If you should one day wake up and notice that you have a problem this could solve, you will find yourself googling for a solution, again side-stepping this whole marketing nonsense.

[ClikeX]

Agreed, a lot of product pages read like Rick & Morty's interdimensional cable.

[pipes]

I was complaining about this sort of thing in another thread.