Originally Posted by BradC
First, yes, let's keep this civilized.
Second, yes, there's no point in rehashing the same things over and over again. This is like someone who calls a customer service line to complain and is apologized to, and offers are made to make up for what they're unhappy about, and yet they continue to complain and complain and complain.
At some point, what more can the company do? The situation is what it is, to use a cliche, and if people are still unhappy, I hope they understand that we're very sorry about that. We certainly wish we could build a time machine and go back a couple years to correct some missteps. But those things happened, and now here we are.
Third, yes, software development is iterative. You improve it in ways large and small from one major release to the next, ideally with small updates along the way to fix bugs and other things, and hopefully a few years down the line, you can see the great strides that were made from v1 to v5.
I have a 12yo daughter, and in recent months it has struck me that, holy cow, I have a young woman in my house. Where'd that toddler go? What happened to that grade schooler who went door-to-door the first time selling Girl Scout cookies? You don't see the little things from day to day, month to month, year to year, but when you look at a decade, you see the big picture view.
Let's keep the big picture in mind, folks. Thanks.
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