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This is an overly broad generalization.

Computer software products can and should come in all sizes and flavors and designs.

This is the most powerful and flexible machine invented. You can’t say the software that runs in them should be like this or like that.

What you can say is some products do well by being simple.

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It's likely true in their own bubble of small business apps on Product Hunt where performance is mostly measured in time savings and the simplification of processes.

But this doesn't hold for more creative applications that are more like games, where the time spend doing a task is time that is regarded as time well spend, where there is value in developing your own workflow and explorations.

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