might be a form of Jevons Paradox

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39780128

Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

Thought leaders spent the last couple of decades propaganding that features-per-week is the only metric to optimize, and that if your software has any bit of efficiency or quality in it that’s a clear indicator for a lost opportunity to sacrifice it on the alter of code churning.

The result is not “amazing”. I’d be more amazed had it turned out differently.

Fucking “features”. Can’t software just be finished? I bought App. App does exactly what I need it to do. Leave. It. Alone.
“More AI features”? Of course we can implement more AI features for yo.

No, never! Tech corps (both devs and app stores) brainwashed people into thinking “no updates = bad”.

Recently, I have seen people complain about lack of updates for: OS for a handheld emulation device (not the emulator, the OS, which does not have any glaring issues), and Gemini protocol browser (gemini protocol is simple and has not changed since 2019 or so).

Maybe these people don’t use the calculator app because arithmetic was not updated in a few thousand years.

A big part of this issue is mobile OS APIs. You can’t just finish an android app and be done. It gets bit rot so fast. You get maybe 1-2 years with no updates before “this app was built for an older version of android” then “this app is not compatible with your device”.
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arithmetic was not updated in a few thousand years.

Oh boy, don’t let a mathematician hear this.