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Newer tech has added vast amounts of new functionality at the expense of making the older, simpler functions a bit more cumbersome and less reliable. Not everyone likes that trade off. For example, in the early 1980s, landline phones were indestructible, never dropped calls, and had 99.99999% uptime. VOIP phones are nowhere near that reliable, by any metric, but that's the price for fully redirect-able calls/messages among dozens of other useful features.

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I'm one of the "not everyone"s.

I've gone back to analogue radios, amps from the 90s, physical notebooks, old TVs, and even old gaming consoles. Why? Because they just work. There are no updates changing the interface, bugs to workaround (usually also from updates), annoyingly poor interface design to deal with, and the need to handle them with cotton in case they break.

That old tech is so good, it works 30+ years later. Can you imagine anything you bought in the last year working thirty years from now?

I understand where you are coming from. I've done that with a few selected items, but in general I have chosen the newer options. There always seems to be a feature or two I find worth the hassle.

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