[themafia]

> Change happens.

The low level tool that has served to rescue more systems than I can count does not need to "change" simply because "it happens, bro."

> while we can mechanistically

You can rule it out with process as well. As in "don't change what isn't broken."

> If they can introduce an RCE to Notepad

Then they clearly feel they have no viable competition. This is table stakes. Getting it wrong should lose you most of your customer base overnight. Companies actually used to _work_ this way.

[perching_aix]

If I told you to stop using computers, and then you won't have computer problems, I don't think you would find that particularly helpful or charitable either, would you?

What you find a trusty "low-level" tool is a demo application for a basic WYSIWYG text editor. They modernized it so that it remains being perceived that way, instead of letting it be increasingly misclassified as a legacy product for the enthusiast, like you just did.

[alwa]

I thought "basic WYSIWYG text editor" was more WordPad's lane, no? May it rest...

[themafia]

> letting it be increasingly misclassified

"No, it's the customers who are wrong."