I didn't notice that.

Some software got buggier. Other software improved. I didn't really notice a pattern in the recent months. Microsoft is doing quite bad, and they make a lot of software many people use on a day to day basis, so maybe there is that.

Often, I get this sentiment when my hardware gets old. Software progressively bloats, but with new, powerful hardware, there is enough margin not to notice it, but eventually, you will, and then they will stop active support. At that point, you may blame the latest release, but it is more of a continuous process. And if, by coincidence, some heavily used software is becoming troublesome for other reasons, it definitely feels like everything goes wrong.

And then we find something to blame. Today, it is AI slop, and it certainly the cause of some software becoming shitty, but I didn't notice a global trend yet. Maybe there is, but we would need quite a study to be sure, I don't even know where to start, so much potential for bias.