Very good post, that holds a lot of experience. Unfortunately these things have to blow up in your own face, often more than once, for a lesson learned.
> It’s a bit smarmy of me to criticize them for waiting so long between releases. They didn’t do it on purpose, now, did they?
Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Very good post, that holds a lot of experience. Unfortunately these things have to blow up in your own face, often more than once, for a lesson learned.
> It’s a bit smarmy of me to criticize them for waiting so long between releases. They didn’t do it on purpose, now, did they?
Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.