Comment by eternityforest

My experience has shown almost all of it to be essential except the stuff that is very obvious "Programmers playing with stuff that seems cool".

Once you account for hardware errors, human errors, respecting the user's time, compatibility with different file formats, multiplatform support, and the limited resources developers have, etc, most programs seem like they couldn't be any simpler while still being something I want to use.

Or, they potentially could, but nobody would pay enough to justify the extra time it would take.

Which is why I don't complain that Etcher is 99MB. It's like conceptual art, Yes, you could do it smaller, but you didn't, and I don't want to because I can just use the existing thing and move on, and I wouldn't pay for a lighter version when the heavier thing is free.

I just don't see all that much disappointing software in the commerical space at least.