Yup. Powerful features are removed to "streamline experience". Sometimes in bulk, because product migrated from e.g. bespoke native app to multiplatform webshit in an embedded browser, which automatically halved the performance and removed most ergonomics.
And then new features are released as MVPs - meaning, they do the absolute minimum to check the box (almost a literal box: close the feature ticket internally), and inefficiently so. Whether it'll be iterated on afterwards, depends. Pretty unlikely in the immediate term. They need to "collect usage data to know what to do" first, which means it gets deprioritized relative to moar features.
But that's fine for me. As long as copy-paste works, I can make do with other software, perhaps competing software, or worst case, have Claude find and use some powerful-but-janky OSS CLI tool to do the stuff for me.
I'm less angry at it than I used to. Mostly because I don't have time to be annoyed anymore, but it's true that I've learned to like updates from few companies. That's because after years - years - I've noticed things gradually improving on average. True of Android & Samsung OneUI, except when it's not. True of UniFi stuff. If I see some new feature behaving badly, I now mostly trust they'll eventually fix it. It'll take a year or three, they'll overhaul it entirely twice, and I may need to buy a new phone to get it, but it will happen one day. But most software doesn't even clear that bar.
And then new features are released as MVPs - meaning, they do the absolute minimum to check the box (almost a literal box: close the feature ticket internally), and inefficiently so. Whether it'll be iterated on afterwards, depends. Pretty unlikely in the immediate term. They need to "collect usage data to know what to do" first, which means it gets deprioritized relative to moar features.
But that's fine for me. As long as copy-paste works, I can make do with other software, perhaps competing software, or worst case, have Claude find and use some powerful-but-janky OSS CLI tool to do the stuff for me.
I'm less angry at it than I used to. Mostly because I don't have time to be annoyed anymore, but it's true that I've learned to like updates from few companies. That's because after years - years - I've noticed things gradually improving on average. True of Android & Samsung OneUI, except when it's not. True of UniFi stuff. If I see some new feature behaving badly, I now mostly trust they'll eventually fix it. It'll take a year or three, they'll overhaul it entirely twice, and I may need to buy a new phone to get it, but it will happen one day. But most software doesn't even clear that bar.