Why is progress always assumed to be about adding more stuff? Sometimes, taking something away would be best, but humans tend to overlook it.

Article: People systematically overlook subtractive changes - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03380-y

We are hard wired to perceive addition as value.

	▲	alansaber an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> deploy loads of new features > bin them into few, better features > remove all the features > repeat

falcor84 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I for one hate it when product managers update systems to make them simpler and remove features/settings that I depend on.

	▲	hsbauauvhabzb 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, this is why I want notepad to be as simple as possible. I rely on it. The W11 notepad is frustrating and useless if all I want to do is open a file. I wish they would fix notepad by pushing whatever version was shipped in w10 as the default.