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For a while, this was a fairly common solution. Several pieces of complex software I use today still do this. PrusaSlicer, for instance.

I do wish it were a more widespread practice.

"Product Tours" are, in my opinion, worthless.

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Worse than worthless, they also force people who know what they're doing (eg, are just reinstalling the software) to sit through them or at least click through them. Best is when "skip tour" just hastens you onto the next tour. Just had this with battle.net. Twice.

I wonder why it didn’t stick then. Jira does this, but I haven’t seen any other tools do it. Do you know of any other web-app/saas doing this?

I think the practice subsided when the minimalism trend became popular in software.

> Do you know of any other web-app/saas doing this?

I don't use webapp/SaaS tools, so I'm not in a position to answer this. Perhaps someone else can, though.

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