[mrngm]

> Same with What's New modals, some people will benefit from learning these things (notably power users?), but they'll annoy others.

I think power users are most annoyed by those modals. It prevents them from doing the exact thing they were planning to do. Instead, they'll have to reinterpret what the application is telling them, consider it to be irrelevant (most of the times), and then pick up whatever they were planning to do. This creates friction.

I don't need the application to tell me a sidebar was introduced. I see that immediately because it differs from the layout I'm already used to. And then I'm annoyed they added the sidebar, because it takes up space without offering relevant new functionality.

[port11]

Okay, you're actually right and I was dumb to think power users wouldn't find the features anyway.