[orng]

I think part of the problem is that there seems to be a widespread sentiment among software developers to prioritize our time above the user's. Ease of development trumps ease of use and features are made to be easy, or rather fast, to build rather than easy to use and performant.

As a young developer I was taught to take the extra time to make things better for the user. Even if it might mean spending two days on a feature rather than a few hours, the cumulative time saved would end up much more than the extra time I spent since users use your software more often than you write it and there are many users. Unfortunately this view is not widespread enough.

[ersamsa]

„it‘s not economical to build good software“

[BowBun]

Physical products suffer the same fate. It makes no (capitalist) sense for a business to make a product that never needs to be replaced. In the US, it means we've seen brands like Levi's and L.L. Bean quality and guarantees decline greatly compared to the products that earned them their reputation.