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Those on the Windows side are just as if not more angered by Windows 11 too. The software industry has become an example of quantity over quality, features over fixes, change and novelty over stability, diversity over excellence.

Instead of gradually approaching perfection as bugs are fixed over time, software gets needlessly rewritten and introduces a bunch of new bugs. Thanks to the wholly misguided focus on "developer experience", the new version is more inefficient and more complex, leading to even more bugs than the previous one. They call it "progress", but it really isn't. It's an increasingly steep decline fueled by an abundance of developers that need to be given something to do.

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It’s not even “the quantity over quality.” Early OS X point releases would get big new features like hardware accelerated compositing. What does Ventura even add? The last big new feature was APFS becoming the default back in 2017.

I guess it’s better than Microsoft, where Metro/WinUI/web rewrites of core apps actually remove tons of long-standing features.

> What does Ventura even add?

I like the native support for 32:9… But that’s about it.

Well using the iPhone as a camera on the Mac is pretty awesome. And it’s desk view feature to show what you draw. So there’s no need to take a webcam or camera for better quality with me when I travel for work. Just a mouse, keyboard and clamshelled MacBook hooked up to the hotel TV - still allowing me to make video calls.

I recently switched to Windows because I need some performance-intensive windows-only software. I'm convinced that Microsoft lets marketing write the feature bullet list and then tells product managers to assign arbitrary dates to each bullet entry and use that as their project timeline. Quality is absolute garbage. Microsoft 365 Family is shockingly bad. The 6tb of storage you get for $10/mo (spread out over 6 accounts) might not actually be worth it.

pretty much, after microsoft decided windows wasn't really critical they kind of just let random people go to town with it

that's why opensource platforms are so important, general computing is kind of screwed when apple or microsoft get distracted by something shiney

Windows 11 is truly awful. Perhaps windows has always been a clunky mess and I din't quite realize it until I started using MacOS professionally, but I can hardly stand it. That said, I remember feeling Windows 10 was a notable degradation of UX, and Windows 11 only doubled down on that. Windows 7 is the last MS OS that I have any fond memories of, if it was announced that Windows 12 would be designed to more closely resemble that then I would seriously consider buying another Windows machine, until then I'll stick with my Macbook.

> The software industry has become an example of quantity over quality, features over fixes, change and novelty over stability, diversity over excellence.

Well, it is all caused by senior managers counting JIRA tickets and certified scrum masters pushing the sand through the python.

Software enthusiasts in sandals loving technology have been replaced by people driven by compensation structures.

> The software industry has become an example of quantity over quality

Yes, and so many other industries have lead the way as well.

On some level I think it’s for the better. I won’t buy perfect, indestructible, 0.1 micron tolerance carrot peeler for the price of a car (nor will buy a car summiting the state of the art technology for the price of a house). I’m for cheap goods striking a good feature/price balance.

But on the other end of the spectrum it all reminds me of John Siracusa’s legendary toaster reviews, every single one of them being so crappy in some specific way. Having overall nice experience for a reasonable price is becoming more the exception than the norm.

I’m still happy we’ve left the Win98 days and kernel level crashes are pretty much a thing of the past.

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