Haiku:
Applies to most industries where "overload the buyer with features that they don't need" is seen as a plus, far outweighing the basic KISS principle of a working solution:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/the-takeaway-is-that-we-dont-tend-to-take-things-away/
As a society, we seem to have mixed feelings about whether it's better to add or subtract things, advising both that "less is more" and "bigger is better." But these contradictory views play out across multibillion-dollar industries, with people salivating over the latest features of their hardware and software before bemoaning that the added complexities make the product difficult to use.
A team of researchers from the University of Virginia decided to look at the behavior underlying this tension, finding in a new paper that most people defaulted to assuming that the best way of handling a problem is to add new features.
JohnM de F Re KISS
ReplyDeleteI have two lawn mowers.
The big one has a manual choke and starts first time, every time.
The small one has an automatic choke and is a bugger to start.
Same manufacturer of motor - why can "they" leave things alone? It reminds me of the old engineering phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"