In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
The root of the problem is growth and profit seeking is what is steering the tech research and production. Which just leads to an endless churn of useless software and hardware updates.
Desktop OSes peeked around Windows 7. macOS hasn’t had a useful feature since dark mode. The UIs have only gone down hill with trying to force them to be mobile friendly and flat.
The iPhone peeked around iPhone 8/iPhone X depending on if you liked the notch/FaceID or not. I’ve seen no useful features since.
Companies must make “progress” each year by releasing worse user hostile software updates and force device upgrades through planned obsolescence.