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I hate how tech companies just constantly want to change everything.
Just give me something usable that I can get shit done with and fuck off. I don't want your changes and updates and new feature.
That's one thing I love about FOSS, that the only stakeholders are the devs and the users. The goal is to make software that's good at what it does.
When it comes to any tech company's product, you not only have all the stakeholders that corrupt the end product, but you have giant teams of marketers, designers, engineers, and managers that need to constantly justify their existence and or be efficiently utilized at all times.
Honestly it's like lesser version of enshittification, the tendency of commercial products to always be changing things.
They have to because the capitalist imperative of infinite, progressive growth forces them to constantly seek out additional speculative avenues for profit. The potential for a valuable product (stock) is more valuable than a good product and is cheaper to produce than a good product.
It is important to note that you are also a product in a surveillance capitalist state thaf commodifies every second of your day. The speculative value on more profitable avenues to source and sell your data has more speculative value than anything your patronage would generate.
Excel 97 was perfect. Now I can barely find the shit I actually need to use because of all the "features" they've added to justify their jobs.
Yeah, at least fix the bugs first.
Windows has had a bug that's driven me mad since before Windows 10 and it doesn't seem they have any intentention to fix it.
When I try to rename files, I always click somewhere in the text of the name or highlight a specific portion, and then 90% of the time RIGHT before I start typing to add or change the name, it randomly highlights the entire thing so the whole text gets replaced instead of the one section I wanted to change.
INFURIATING and it's been years that it's happened, between two different versions of Windows!
There's also another 2 or 3 other bugs that are just as infuriating but I don't imagine will ever be fixed or changed because why the fuck would microsoft care.