Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
There are some good points here, but of course I am going to ignore those to talk instead about the stuff I disagree with!<p>The section about google maps follows a form of criticism that is widespread and particularly annoys me, namely =&gt; popular service &#x27;x&#x27; doesn&#x27;t exactly fit my power user need &#x27;y&#x27;, therefore x is hopelessly borked, poorly designed, and borderline useless.<p>There is always room for improvement, but all software requires tradeoffs. One of the things that makes a product like google maps so powerful is that it makes a lot of guesses about what you are actually trying to do in order to greatly reduce the complexity and inputs required in order to do these incredibly complicated tasks.<p>So yes, sometimes when you move the map some piece of data will be removed from the screen without your explicit consent, and yeah, in that moment that feels incredibly annoying. But balance that against the 100s or 1000s of times you used google maps and it just worked, perfectly, because it reduced the number of inputs needed to use it to the bare minimum.<p>Google maps doesn&#x27;t need to fit every use case perfectly, and while its fine to talk through how your hyper specific use case could and should work, remember all the times that it seamlessly routed you around traffic from your office to your house in one touch while you were already hurtling down the highway at 70 mph.