I looked after the XI editor mentioned here and found it being deprecated. Looked at the article again and learned it's from 2018.

But I get the argument. Software should be fast and reliable, but making it fast is not what the customer pays for, when it's good just enough.

Having the problem to always start at the bottom is what discourages people to start again. A company in the EU would be needed to build a smartphone and software on par with iOS and Android but we'll never get there.