Yeah no. We have this fight every year or so and you're still very wrong. Word SUCKS ASS at formatting a basic list. Word wants your basic list to be a very-not-basic list, and it's going to try and guess what the fuck your list should look like, and it will take your first input to that list not as what you want to do, but as some secret gnostic keyboard macro of some list that an engineer back in 1985 wanted to do, and getting the list that you want is never going to fucking happen because Microsoft definitely knows lists better than you do so fucking suck it up, buttercup, because this is your list and if it doesn't match your expectations it's because you don't know lists and Microsoft does.

Clippy happened because Microsoft sucks so hard at understanding customer input that they fucking auto-launched a wizard to create text documents. And that wizard has no more clue what you're trying to do, has no more interest in determining your desires, has no more utility at aiding you in your quest for a fucking list than the dropdown menu does, which by the way is now three different menus two of which are context-sensitive.

I use TD Ameritrade. Know what TD Ameritrade does? It launches a goddamn plaintext AI to get you where you want to go. They recognize that what they're doing is byzantine, ridiculous and subject to categorization that makes sense to financial professionals but is goddamn Sumerian to the average retail investor so they created "Ted" to sit there and parse your angry confusion into useful instruction. But TD Ameritrade is trying to help me self-build a Coverdell for my kid, not format a fucking list.

You know why people hit the spacebar nine times? Because IT LOOKS RIGHT. You know what a decent coder would do? ASK IF NINE SPACES IS WHAT YOUR LIST WANTS TO LOOK LIKE. Microsoft? Microsoft adds bullets, adjusts the tabs for the rest of your document, discards your Undo history so you can't revert and alters your format styles such that your report has now become a grocery list because fuck you, that's why. Google Docs is abject crippleware in many, many ways. It spies on every character you type. But people use Google Docs instead of Word because when you make a list in Google Docs, you end up with a mutherfucking LIST.

Your argument, simply put, is that software can do a whole lot more if you're willing to sink your life into learning how to squint your eyes, hold it with three fingers and hit it sideways in order to drive the nail without recognizing that most people just want a goddamn hammer. And you act as if no one has ever picked up a goddamn hammer before. Ghastly fucking UI is not something to scorn people for failing to overcome, it's something that needs to be pilloried and expunged with vehemence and hatred. Ghastly fucking UI is not a side effect of fast design, it's the core issue preventing the usage of most software. And because it prevents the usage, it prevents the testing, and in turn leads to software that melts into a puddle if you use ten percent of it.

Logic Pro Audio (in Emagic parlance, Logic Platinum 6) was the last version of Logic to ship with a written manual. In the "surround" section of the manual, the Apple engineers had written "although Logic has the facilities to create surround mixes, we recommend that you leave this task to professionals."

In something with "Pro Audio" in the goddamn name of the software.

That's Apple, admitting that they weren't interested in supporting what they bought. Mostly they wanted to gut it to bring you GarageBand.

Imagine what music production would look like if they were willing to make their shit usable.