I would wholeheartedly agree with that. Developers don’t talk about enabling people or making lives better anymore, they don’t talk about helping people work more efficiently or use their computer more effectively. Developers treat their users like cattle now. They addict them and herd them and farm their eyeballs for ad-revenue. They don’t program to make the world a better place, they program because it’s a fun way to make entirely too much money at their favorite hobby: reinventing and overcomplicating the wheel.
This is very true from all software: web, desktop, games.
The underlying fact to me is: other than custom apps for very specific cases, we don’t actually need new software, or more programmers.
We already have them all! And we already have the best (as in “works good enough for most”) UX.
We have tools to create, produce and build pretty much anything we want. Just thinking about AutoCAD or Excel and I smile.
Even in terms of hardware we already have everything: we have more digital storage to host content than time to consume said content, hello! All recent computers have 4 to 32 cores and most of those don’t do shit all day, except getting hogged by a browser reinventing 4096 wheels at the same time. The amount of waste in computing is excruciating.
So if we maxed out our digital needs, why are we acting like we can do so much better, that we need better apps when we know that we absolutely do not? We don’t need more apps. Not even updates.
Take Spotify and any 2000s audio players hooked to a SSD full of music. The old apps trounce the new one in every way (usability, stability, speed, customization) without nagging you for any update, ever. And no subscription, of course. That’s swag, bro.
How do y’all accept using an app daily, which could change quite fundamentally any time while logging your behavior 24/7, is beyond me. That’s abusive as hell. Quit them, we have enough alternatives.