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Comment by rpdillon

4 months ago

This is a great point. I sort of detest becoming an expert at proprietary stuff, because I know they'll just change it before long. I've lamented about this elsewhere as modern software creating "permanent amateurs". Even those that want to invest in expertise often find their knowledge outdated in a handful of years, and those that don't want to invest can easily justify it by pointing out this effect.

Microsoft, at least before Cloud happened, supported their tech stacks with backward compatibility for decades.