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Updated Feb 24, 2022
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You know, apart from swift changes that restore removed functionality, the number one thing that people actually want to see here is Microsoft to just say, plainly and without qualification, "mistakes were made".
The problem isn't just "ya done bleeped up". The problem is that Microsoft's response to this has been as tone deaf as it is to every other ridiculous footbullet (for example, deciding we can no longer move the taskbar). The body corporate and all the subservient meat mechs that attend it emit a unified tone of "we did nothing wrong, our choices were perfect, you're just all too simple to understand".
Vista. Windows 8. On and on, projects big and small spanning decades. Nothing has really changed; the corporate culture we are forced to deal with as hostages unable to escape this ecosystem remains. Reality or not (and the perception of the beholder defined interpretation), much of the response to this release reinforces an interpretation that what is at play here it an arrogant belief that Microsoft Knows Best; that the travails of the mundanes are irrelevant.
That we're just holding it wrong. That's super butts.