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Because their management structure is horrendously overbloated and their internal culture is horrific.
I used to work for them. Every manager, every team lead, at every level, is viciously trying to climb to the top of the crab bucket, and pull every one else down at the same time.
Look at Asha Sharma's recent statment on reorganizing Xbox.
14 levels of management. 14. You have have a boss, who has a boss, who has a... up to fucking 14.
... the entire company is like this, not just Xbox.
Thats why everything is insane broken nonsense.
Oh, that and extreme over reliance on contractors to do most of the actual work. Contractors don't get stock options, you see.
This results in a situation where half of any project's timeline is the new contractors just trying to understand the code the previous contractors made.
That is all wasted time, compared to if you just actually had a consistent team you paid properly... and of course it massively exacerbates technical debt.
Nothing is actually properly documented, there are very, very few people who actually understand a codebase and have been maintaining and growing it for 10 years, no, its 10 years of 10 different sets of contractors, and maybe 3-6 different managers 'overseeing' this.
It is all spaghetti code.
There has never been a totally new Windows, certainly not in this century. That has never happened, and they lie internally to their own employees about that.
There has never been a total refactor of Windows. Windows 11 still has UI menus from Win 7, possibly fucking XP, if you dig deep enough.
Amazingly, Windows 11 still has some settings menus directly from 1992's Windows 3.1
... jesus christ.
I did not know it was actually that bad, that it went back that far... god damnit.
Yeah, those are the good ones.
Yeah that's the worst bit tbf
If you're not going to make better UIs and you're going to keep the old ones around anyway... Why not just... add new items to the old ones?
Instead, you have like 3 or 4 different generations of control panel and they do different things so you go to the correct one based on what you need to do...
I'm just happy to not own any Windows machines anymore, not even dual boot. I actually liked 7. Like really liked it. 10 felt like a downgrade (I suspect because the UI was uglier and it had an extra layer of control panel added in either 8 or 10 that was more dumbed down so you'd usually want to go to the old one, which gets you thinking "why exactly did we need a new Windows version"). 11 is shit even on a brand new machine, even if it looks pretty-ish. It's slow, the reduced context menu is annoying... Yeah I could change a lot of things via registry keys and whatnot, but KDE Plasma just gives me a single system settings application that configures almost everything I'd want to configure on my machine, the rest is application specific stuff for which I'm fine just editing the conf files
To be clear I'm just venting because I'm frustrated with Windows, not because I think you like it lol
I laughed, then cried, because I still have to use this heap of shit operating system at work.
Same :(
This is the answer. I work in a big company which has a similar issue. The boots on the ground devs like me know how bad some cascaded orders and ideas are but when you try to bring it up it's like trying to talk to a brick wall with 13 other brick walls in the way
Its so cathartic to read this after dealing with the exact same bullshit with my own employer. Management has no clue what is actually going on, but refuses to listen to us peons because they've 'made it' to middle management so obviously they know better than all of us always.
Scott Adams went MAGA bonkers, but the Dilbert Principle is still a valid corrolary to the Peter Principle.
... the narcissistic sociopaths that are most managers simply don't care, because they are right and you are stupid.
... which is also why the love the overly confident lying know it alls that are LLMs... they are a perfect source of many elements of narcissistic supply.
I'm gonna have to use that saying, lol
Star Citizen was ahead of its time lol