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>The article says at the end: "You see? Not that hard right?". It is that hard in bigger organisations.

The size of the organisations is not important, as is the size of the team working on the particular feature/app.

Apple is huge, for example, but eg. Logic Pro has great changelogs.

We also see huge apps (with large teams) do better than than small apps (with much smaller teams). It's more about bothering/caring than difficulty.

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Apple has a much more traditional engineering structure and traditional release cadence though. A lot of the "worst offenders" of these types of release notes are structured and work much differently. They release updates 1-2 times a week, sometimes release features weeks after the code has shipped to users, and sometimes in stretched out rollouts.

They say there if there is a will, there is a way, so in a sense I agree that these companies probably could do something about it if they really wanted to, but I also don't think it would be easy, and considering how few people actually look at release notes, I am not sure the investment is worth it.

Logic Pro doesn't have server-side feature flags.

Many apps don't have either, and they have shitty changelogs still...

As far as I know all the big apps the OP is complaining about have server-side feature flags.

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