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  I've had a lot of houses and a lot of blinds in my life!  Every blind or shade option that becomes popular ends up having very shitty options.  If your view was "if you're on a budget, venetian blinds are going to be the shittiest for the dollar option" then I'd agree.  However, an actually good set of venetian blinds tailor made for your windows is amazing, but costs about $2,000 for a typical window and $4k for something like an 8 foot patio slider.  If you haven't had or interacted with the good versions of these then I'd suggest you are evaluating the affect of popularity and commodititazation of the blind, not the actual type of blind.  These can be motorized or not, corded or cordless and so on.
  TL;DR: if a venetian blind is shitty then it's the shittiest of the options.  Non-shitty venetian blinds are available, expensive and excellent.
context: All of these problems are solved by not buying literally the cheapest blinds.
  Spend a bit more and you will get nice looks, better light blocking, good materials, and opening/closing mechanism that feel smooth.
  As for benefits over other blinds: you can control the amount of light that comes in.   You cannot evenly block out 50% of the light with a roller or traditional curtain.  You also don't need to wash them. >
  
  Some strong arguments here, but I often see so many cheap, ineffective Venetian blinds, whereas I can hardly say the same for roller blinds, which are often very effective at their job. 
  It’s no use having all the functionality of the Venetian blinds as a purchase motivation, if people get the cheap installations which hardly let those functions work. 
  I am now on board that an upper end Venetian blind, could have the same benefits and more, of a standard roller blind >
  
  
  I am now on board that an upper end Venetian blind
  
  Thanks!
  Glad you changed your view (even if a little bit).
  I actually agree with you that CHEAP plastic blinds are horrific and worse than even the cheapest curtains.
  But quality blinds, do offer a lot of benefits. >
  
  if they are made from cheap plastic then you have the dollar store variant of them,  complaining that the cheapest variant of a product isn't as good is a false comparison,
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  buy some decent Venetian blinds and they will work for a long time and actually work well.
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  and a Venetian blind can give you light at an angle, allowing the room to be well lit without allowing someone to look inside   essentially a dimmer switch instead of an on/off >
  
  I maintain that I see many cheap variants of Venetian blinds, which impacts their usability. I have never seen a cheap roller blind that doesn’t still work relatively well
  The privacy due to angling the blinds is a strong argument, and I’m willing to concede that this promotes some good use cases for Venetian blinds >
  
  it doesn't impact its usability, being in nearly every office on every window means its cornered the market on cheap lightweight window coverings.  
  but that niche isn't the only form of Venetian blinds, just the most common one.  
  essentially its like a range of products,  Venetian ones can go from 5-100 quality while a roller blind might go from  20-100,   now that might make the roller blind sound better, but from a budget pov having a wider range allows the venetian ones to be sold more.    
  now to compare them properly you would need to compare products that are both similar quality aka both 50-100 or 100-100 >
  
  They cast awesome shadows