Yeah so I just got owned by a WordPress plugin that I updated and it broke everything.
I think outside audio, plugins/extensions are the absolute worst:
- Security wise, the worst.
- Consistency of experience for everyone, the worst.
- Fake plugin “economies” and markets, the worst.
Back in the days I had a neat Firefox that I had customized perfectly. A few plugins, all set up. This idiot program updated to the next version, killing all my plugins at once.
I never used Firefox ever again. Nor browser plugins, outside the crucial ones like anti-spam plugins called adblockers for some reason.
With audio software plugins work because by design they are easy to deal with: drop them in a folder, done. Plugin crashes? Take it out of the folder, done.
Don’t make your digital life depend on plugins. The least possible, please.