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That's because we haven't yet started to laugh people out of the room that get uneasy and complain when the rate of updates of something starts slowing down.


I heard a graybeard story about a manager who walked into a new ~90s sysadmin shop and was immediately horrified that everyone was calmly and slowly working.

At his old company, the sysadmins had been constantly putting out emergency fires!

... seeing how the "used to infinitely patched software" generation is unable to parse "done" is interesting.

Eventually, competence means nothing to do.




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