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Yeah, large companies like to really excel at specifically the eventual part of "eventual consistency", and without proper testing of production latencies, lots of UIs just end up broken, buggy and janky.

I don't know if I just got seriously grumpy over time/with experience, but everything user-facing just seems so crap nowadays, unless it's made by a smaller company who actually seem to care even a tiny bit.

I've been forced to use github projects recently. If I change the label or status, say, of a task, the change takes its sweet time to propagate through the UI. Creating multiple new tasks is a huge chore because every action is really laggy. It's hard to believe that anyone at github uses any of this junk.

It's annoyingly disconcerting. A simple database row count apparently now difficult in 2026.

Don't worry, I've vibe coded a new database system and it'll save us (and net me a nice promo)