Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible?
Metabase might be the most confusingly designed piece of software I have ever encountered, but it is hard to beat free...
And in general, anything university-related seems like a shitshow. The worst UX, terribly slow, useless errors, dumb password policies... it's one of those sectors that people might say is "ripe for disruption", but god, who wants to deal with thousands of colleges in different districts, states, and countries, each with their own specific registration pathways, etc. That'd be one heck of a crazy business rules engine.
Also, the janky shittiness that is Discord. It's like a super-heavyweight IRC with the worst distractions ever. It takes ages to load (even on a M2 Max), needs to take a minute or two to update itself every time I open it (even though it's just an Electron wrapper?), has the worst UX, etc. There are some alternative clients but they don't support important features (like voice chat) yet. It makes Slack seem fast and easy. Man, I miss the old simple IM clients like Trillian and Google's first chat.
Document Management Systems are also very annoying.
it's crap and I hate it, but that's because it takes me ages to find the app I need unless I pin it to the main screen
music, calls, and I'm chats go there, but I don't get distracted by any other junk, unless I actually need a tool/app