Normally I dislike theories about the world that are predicated on the moral failings of entire professions. These things are more complicated than that, right? Incentives create patterns of behaviour.
However: I was out getting ramen with a buddy of mine, guy who works at one of those huge-big software companies in a senior position. This restaurant had one of those digital menus, where you scan a QR code and have to order your food on their website. And the website they had... christ almighty! It took a full 10 seconds to respond to any of my inputs!! If I was booting up fuckin noclip dot website here I might understand, but this was literally a list of meals and a button to check out. What in god's name could this website be doing behind the scenes that was causing such latency???
I complain about this to my buddy, how absurd it is that their website was lagging this bad, and what this extremely skilled, senior software developer at a billion dollar company said in response was "ah, but it's a pain in the arse to support older phone models, so really this one is one you".
So I think one of two things is going on here. It's either modern app designers really are just pod people from mars, or they put a special slug in your brain when you get the job. Still figuring out which.
Getting conflicting reports here.
