suzyne wrote: ↑2024-05-05, 22:29
forced to play catch-up in the technological arms race.
The thing is, nobody says that websites actually
have to use what new things Google cooks up in their labs.
So there are more guilty parties here than just Google.
Of course as a side note: Google
did push the Angular framework to further that agenda and set the tone, but other frameworks really don't
have to follow suit. Yet, they still
do. (some market forces at play being the need for "constant
change innovation", creating more work and repeat business, often masked under the terms "security" and "privacy" as a blanket "no further explanation necessary, just upgrade" reason).
The frustration of end users is shared by me, in that context. Despite the continual improvements made, it's never quite "good enough" because everything is a moving target. Nobody got the memo that designs and specifications are
finite. Some designs are finished and can't be improved upon any more in any significant/meaningful way - and we've seen many occurrences now where the "progress" is just doing the exact same things in slightly different novel ways, which is just another form of insanity, if you ask me.