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> On the usability side, the platform has become more and more slow over time

The best reason right here.

Off-topic, but as a non-native speaker I’m curious if it’s common to say “more and more slow” as opposed to “slower and slower” (maybe to emphasize the adjective?)

Slower and slower is more natural to my ear. More and more slow sounds weird.

For me (native speaker), I would say "more slow" is incorrect grammar no matter how you use it, though people will know what you mean. So you should say "slower and slower".

But a writer may use the construct for style reasons. ex: "Vaster than empires, and more slow."

I think it's just not actually technically wrong in the first place, merely uncommon because it's a little awkward.

What makes it ok is it can be used deliberately to build imagery or to intentionally trigger thought because you have to stop to parse it.

What makes it "wrong" is exactly that having to stop to parse it. It's obfuscated meaning to say "increase the decrease". A decrease is a property that may be increased, so it's legal, but you have to stop to puzzle it out rather than know what it means instantly without thought.

Linguistic decay. First they came for our adverbs, now they're attacking our comparative adjectives.

For real. I've been hearing the interface is slow and requires Javascript for years and never really paid much mind, it worked for me. But lately the page loading has gotten abusively slow. I don't think it can be simply blamed on React because that move was made long before this started.

I've taken to loading projects in github.dev for navigating repos so I pay the js tax just once and it's fine for code reading. But navigating PRs and actions is terrible.

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