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by escapeteam 112 days ago
Why is progress always assumed to be about adding more stuff? Sometimes, taking something away would be best, but humans tend to overlook it.

Article: People systematically overlook subtractive changes - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03380-y

2 comments

We are hard wired to perceive addition as value.
> deploy loads of new features > bin them into few, better features > remove all the features > repeat
I for one hate it when product managers update systems to make them simpler and remove features/settings that I depend on.
Exactly, this is why I want notepad to be as simple as possible. I rely on it. The W11 notepad is frustrating and useless if all I want to do is open a file. I wish they would fix notepad by pushing whatever version was shipped in w10 as the default.