That would be really impressive levels of psychopathy.

tl'dr later models generally improve on earlier ones. (although "you can't please all the people all the time" applies)

Yes. They iterate over time.

As has the US Constitution which from its very outset was a dynamic document put forward with the stern advice to attend to it as time passes lest a despot put it aside.

I think you nailed the drive behind my ~3 decades of Emacs use: "I can get at all the text" (possibly above the customization/automation benefits despite this being the "advanced" pov above "it's just a text editor isn't it?"

I remember a 2019 "initiative" at a fairly large international insurance corporation:

"Everyone should code"

This led to a flood of projects trying to get pitched to software, and it also crashed headlong into COVID / furloughs.

That entire C-suite team have been churned, that's how good that idea was.

a torrent of slow claps for Mitt "Say it when it's too late to help" Romney... that's the hallmark of this guy's political contribution.

Some of the older heads here are 100% with you, the notes and comments in this thread should be clear enough indication of that.

But you're right, tools that make short work of ridiculous incantations, 100% good.

We don't sit around trying to re-write arithmetic, but apparently not knowing how to do git pull --rebase is a crime to these smart folks, who don't seem to realize they know very little about getting sh!t done.

United Gangsters of America it seems ... since the people have no say, just a moron with too much luck, too much power, not enough consequences.

They'll come? and the fact that's a question shows American Justice has been absent for quite some time.

use uv ... convince everyone to use uv, convince all docs in projects you use, to use uv.

Reject EVERYTHING ELSE for running / building py pip, poetry, conda ... etc.

If you self host and also write some of your own services, the same requirements are as they always were.

minimal ~ < $100 hardware (Dell, Acer etc mini or ssf pc)

install your linux distro, use your preferred containers, or just run as services on the os.

There's no ads, no ai, no layer of shite, it can't be "enshittified" unless you're doing the shittifying.

more than we already are?!

is the cynicism of saying we’re not cynical enough, not enough?