Not at all. I can't stand it either. It's definitely patronising and infantile. I tolerate the silliness, grit my teeth and move on but it wears away at my patience.
Don't all the XBMC/Kodi-likes suffer from having poor support for mainstream content providers. I've looked a few times over the years, and add-ons for Netflix, YouTube, iPlayer, etc. were slow and terrible for discovery. If you knew the exact name of what you wanted to watch they were just about ok, but beyond that they just didn't fit the paradigm of something that was designed for browsing static libraries of content.
Isn't the whole premise of Roku that it does this well with cheap hardware?
> What on earth? Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company. They are no indie startup, scrappy underdog nor are they victims here.
> AWS took the high road during this fiasco despite Elastic's mudslinging and flailing about.
They didn't start as a multi-billion dollar company. In fact, AWS started shipping their Elasticsearch Service in 2015. Public records show that Elastic's annual revenue in 12 months after their IPO in 2018 was ~200m with <1000 employees.
I'd argue that Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company _in spite_ of AWS.