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by Anamon 194 days ago
This is also one of my arguments. I'm exaggerating, of course, but to me it feels like major software products and services haven't been adding new features for years now. What we get with updates these days are new restrictions on use, and "streamlining", i.e. the removal of features. Usually with the justification that the effort to maintain them was too high.

I used to look at release notes excited about what new features I might get. Now I read them with some level of anxiety. I hope none of the inevitably removed features are ones I used.

The AI evangelist talks to me about 10×. Meanwhile, all the software I use is becoming less functional, less configurable, less powerful, less secure, less stable, and in general crappier by the day.