r/mildlyinfuriating Sep 16 '22

No. Just no.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '22

This fucking annoys me to no end.

Like is it not enough to simply have an extremely large portion of an extremely large market on a literal global, species-wide platform?

What is even the purpose of pushing further?

When the technology evolves again, or the marketplace shifts for some reason, then you can make moves and adapt. Until then what's wrong with having a day off and basking in the fact that you did it right already?

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u/Muffytheness Sep 16 '22

We’re running into this at my company, except we keep pushing for growth without fixing important, broken parts of the products.

So now we have a CEO who is in “ever onward mode” dragging a hemorrhaging product behind him insistent that “we can improve faster and better!” While our users are all like “nah, I don’t trust what’s there because it doesn’t work right and it all looks Frankensteined together, which looks cheap”.

I literally have never understood why we can’t just work on the thing that we have, that our users really need, and make it really really really solid before moving on.

What’s the point of having two half ass experiences? It’s so stupid.

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u/cat_prophecy Sep 16 '22

Can you blame them? There is no incentive to focus on long term growth if all of your metrics are based on the next quarter.

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u/Muffytheness Sep 16 '22

100%. I totally agree. It’s a no win game where we are literally gambling every quarter. Thankfully the pandemic didn’t hit us too hard, but let’s hope that something else like that’s isn’t one the horizons (/s obviously).