I agree with everything, except with the part that tech people appreciate and demand non-nonsense software.
A lot of people in tech enjoy being the "ultimate power user" and are proud of using things that look or feel complicated.
You just have to look at HN itself to read trough rationalisations of why software is bloated and why bigger software is probably better. It's never driven by data or by facts, it's purely by anecdotal experience.
We, collectively as the software industry, have the power to fix this. The fact that awful software still exists demonstrates we don’t care or want to fix it. It’s not a popular opinion here, but software developers/designers are responsible for bad software.
A lot of people in tech enjoy being the "ultimate power user" and are proud of using things that look or feel complicated.
You just have to look at HN itself to read trough rationalisations of why software is bloated and why bigger software is probably better. It's never driven by data or by facts, it's purely by anecdotal experience.