[tombot]

Why isn’t there autosaving? Why go to all this effort to make such a hostile UX?

[spankibalt]

Because autosaving lacks the neccessary fashion irony.

[ergocoder]

It's against the writer's manifesto.

The writers should always always recall their materials.

Auto-save is an opposite of that.

You can see the full manifesto here: writermanifesto.com.