It's a beautiful rant, and I feel his pain. How does it happen that Google goes from having the best maps on the web to a broken toy? That Amazon goes from having fantastic search to returning lists of random items? That modern browswers can once again have visible lag when typing fast? Toward the end, he offers his solution:<p><pre><code> I think an interesting idea for development would be to
have a totally separate "finishing team". You get all new
developers and managers on at the end, so that they aren't
wedded to any of the ideas, they aren't building fences
around their work and unwilling to change anything, they
aren't prideful and unable to admit that it sucks. The
finishing team is only concerned with the *results*, what
the actual user experience is, and they can mercilessly cut
up the product to make it better. Politically the finishers
have no stake in keeping work, so they can even revert huge
chunks or just cut features.
</code></pre>
Does anyone do this? Or would it just be too demoralizing?
I have approximately zero of these issues. But maybe using a modern operating system is also one of this guy's/girl's pet peeves.<p>It is unbelievably stupid to stay on such an old browser. Browsers are the main vector of attacking an individual user, and you can't sacrifice security updates in order to keep a UI that you seem to prefer.