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Hot take if the feature bloat that’s made using every service absolute hell these days were negated overnight every measure of societal health would improve within a day. My god what an ambient source of friction, rage, and feeling like you can’t trust anything. If no Very Serious People have considered it from a national flourishing perspective I hereby invite them to.
Like especially given that a ton of society doesn’t sleep enough. “Don‘t short out people’s working memory with inscrutable walls of crap and things iteratively hidden within other things” is heuristic the world needs to adopt yesterday.*
*yes I get that this is a lot the result of the world and its affordance structure being like that but also like damn, things were not always like this.
Companies have an incentive to make you use their application (as opposed to their competitors' applications), even if they do not have the resources to do it right.