Today I wish the same, but for someone with enough motivation and tokens instead.

Don't get the wrong idea: I would be glad for a OneNote/Obsidian alternative that's performant. I just lament the days where I'd stare in awe thinking about the levels of wizardry one must get to in order to build something that I admire. Now the first thing that comes to mind is "I wonder how many tokens did this took them to make".

Since I'm detecting snarkiness in your words, let me clarify something important: How convincing something you read is doesn't have to match with how true it is.

So it's not like I am willing to read through this and think to myself "I cannot wait to pick up some new ways of doing things". I'm the general to my agentic army now.

I guess you would code manually every now and then for your own enjoyment but at that point do you care about style guides written for scale?

Furthermore, I find it completely reasonable for someone to care about the long-term financial focus of their children. I find this to be the second best antidote to all the uncertainty and fear older generations leave behind to the new ones.

The first best would've been to actually give a damn and make a stand to what the powers-to-be force you to accept as the new norm as if they're the force of nature that make decisions on how the 95% of the world's population must adapt to.

I'm too European for the rest of your argument and I just happen to be Greek so I fundamentally disagree with the premise that I'm voting a father or mother figure which I must blindly follow out of obligation or blind trust.

Educating oneself to provide better quality of work still requires writing code by hand, and by extend is an achievement of merit.

It's easy: The choice was made from someone else, and you just accepted it as normal. Hardware vendors shipping PC's with Windows 11, corporations who went all in to Microsoft's tooling shove Microsoft Teams down your throat because "the company uses it", and the list goes on.

I don't agree with it, but it's true.

Guess how much Konami cared. Just because there's a survey doesn't mean that they're looking for any kind of feedback, but for very specific feedback. It's not Konami's balance team that tried to make for a fair game, but the C-suits that want to keep printing cards and keep power creeping, because the target isn't fairness or balance, but it's keeping the players who want to stay competitive swipe their credit cards more often.

This was never the goal, because it would influence the standards and expectations of the end user. Any gamer remembers when Baldur's Gate 3 came out everyone said somewhere between "this is the new standard in AAA games" or "this is an amazing value for money". The response from the rest of the gaming industry was pretty much "lol no, not really".

Customer satisfaction rarely aligns with C-suite goals. The faster you understand this the better for your mental health.

If customer satisfaction actually aligned with corporate goals then planned obsolescence wouldn't be a thing. Yes, this doesn't apply to software... or does it?

It's like dating someone who only uses a perfume/cologne but they do so because they don't want to take a bath. You could have done BOTH but you opted to do just enough to not make me not want to hold my breath.