Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
This could be a copy-paste of rants I have written. I think marketing has ruined pretty much everything. Everything has a subscription now, and it&#x27;s <i>in the cloud</i>.<p>My experience is that everything is slower than when I first started using computers as a child in the 90&#x27;s, and it does it worse. You don&#x27;t own anything anymore, upgrades routinely take away features, and nothing interfaces with anything else.<p>There are a lot of reasons why building an app on a web framework makes sense, but the fact that I routinely lose access to applications I&#x27;ve paid for because the company has gone out of business or stopped supporting them drives me insane. I can still install Excel 97 if I want to, but I have 0 confidence that anything I&#x27;ve bought from Google will work a year from now.<p>I mean, there is perceptible lag in character entry that never used to happen. Sure, my computer used to freeze inexplicably, but Atom crashes often enough that I don&#x27;t consider that a win, and text has a noticeable delay before it appears on the screen when using Atom. Text entry is something I can implement flawlessly on a microcontroller and the majority of applications I use on a daily basis get it wrong.