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Gmail's user base = billions of people.

A few hundred upset users can be misleading.

Or, representative.

This only means many users are upset.

But even if they were 100,000, that would be a small fraction of the user base and you could still say the user base is either indifferent or satisfied with the change.

>But even if they were 100,000

That would still be representative. A sample. I don't understand your argument.

A sample but a self-selected, louder sample. I would bet the overwhelming majority of users are indifferent to the change.

Simply put, normies count. Not us. Even if 1% (few million users?) are upset now, this wouldn't make google change their mind serving 99% unaware users.

I don't understand. We (at least the folks who are unhappy with this update) are the users of the application. The complaints pertain to issues which affect both "normies" and "us" alike. If I observe an unresponsive/lagging behavior, it isn't because I may be more technically inclined, but because my brain detected an unexpected delay between my input and the outcome.

This is how we get crap everywhere.

“It’s fine, only people who know what they’re talking about eilll realise how slow it is” is a terrible view to have when developing a piece of software!

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