today I was texting and Google Messages began to lag.

Why DOES everything seem to get worse? I can hear the Doctorow fans coming out of the woodwork to tell me it's "enshittification" but that's a cute conspiracy theory that doesn't explain at all why Google would allow Messages to have a memory leak after working fine for years.

There's no profit motive to making a core application shittier.

We have to dig deeper, because this kind of thing is everywhere and hand waving at capitalism like Doctorow does is a cop out and an unsatisfying explanation IMHO

Why do you need to dig deeper? If you were the PM would you prioritise the fixing of the bug instead of other work that’s more important? How many customers will you actually lose?

Because of agile and ci/cd practices. Meaning you ship features to production with at best a/b testing. Never mind writing tests.

Of course written by some cheap devs from India or Bangladesh.

If the code was even still written by a human at this point.

Because random performance bugs are a giant pain to even detect, let alone root cause.