I’ve read that people only use small subsets of the available features in huge programs such as Microsoft Word, so it would seem like they should be able to get rid of “all those features nobody uses” and make a version without all that complicated bloat that confuses everyone. The problem, however, is that everyone uses a different subset of the feature set, so one person’s useless bloat is someone else’s essential, obvious feature that they don’t know how people would get along without.
“Features seem useless until you get used to them, at which point they become essential” may be a fairly common pattern...
I’ve read that people only use small subsets of the available features in huge programs such as Microsoft Word, so it would seem like they should be able to get rid of “all those features nobody uses” and make a version without all that complicated bloat that confuses everyone. The problem, however, is that everyone uses a different subset of the feature set, so one person’s useless bloat is someone else’s essential, obvious feature that they don’t know how people would get along without.
“Features seem useless until you get used to them, at which point they become essential” may be a fairly common pattern...