Software Update Frustrations
The cluster centers on complaints about frequent software updates causing breaking changes, bugs, and productivity losses, contrasted with arguments for updates due to maintenance needs and new features.
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nit: these updates often break working software if you ask me. the productivity loss here is not negligible.
What's happening is that it's been too long since they introduced something that was not an incremental upgrade.
What's wrong with that? I don't blame them for wanting people to upgrade. The new version is probably easier for them to maintain.
What if you update it ? Software sometimes requires some crucial back-end changes and can't be supported to infinity.
New functionality means new bugs and breaking changes to old functionality. Sometimes the trade-off is worth it, but don't like being forced to update when it isn't.
It would be interesting to see where this doesn't happen, you can't just update stuff without considering breaking changes and new bugs in new updates
They still do breaking changes, so it's probably for the best.
Why update if something is perfect? Like in the old days: final version :) wait for new one in few years :)
Just because the version increments doesnt mean it'll be as painful a transition.
It's not necessarily a question of backwards compatibility. Just being forced/pestered to update constantly is an anti-feature.