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Comment by happymellon | Hacker News Reader

It is quite annoying that functionality just changes on products I buy. I hate applying updates because rarely are they an improvement. Sometimes it's just reduced functionality

https://www.sammyfans.com/2025/04/16/samsung-explains-why-bl...

Or sometimes it's destructive. Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792690

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Another aspect of force updates is much more interesting: the updates don't have to provide value to the user anymore. No need to convince people that you fixed something, improved something and that it'll make users experience better. No more nasty accountability.

Whatever the engineers, PMs, UX have for a pet project? Now you can shove it down users throats, no need to worry. Every initiative is a success, every launch a 100% one :)

I particularly hate UI changes. There seems to be a constant trend in phone software to "improve" UI while disregarding the value of consistency and familiarity. Sure UI can be improved but if it's not a massive improvement the negatives of relearning the UI and retraining muscles memory far outweigh the positives. Same applies to features too, though often due to the UI changes that come with those features (Android Chrome's bullshit tab groups pushed me to Firefox).

And it's not like "hey in 6 months we're going to be implementing this change, so get ready in case it affects your workflow" it's sprung on you with no warning and no options, and often isn't even clearly communicated after the fact.

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