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> People manage to write 500 word essays in school in a few days just fine, but writing a website landing page suddenly takes two months?

What the h... I mean, it's an opensource software to make Logitech's users life less miserable, and you are comparing that to the effort of a student writing an essay, where their only or main job during those days is writing the essay?

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> where their only or main job during those days is writing the essay?

Writing 850 words shouldn't take you two months even if you only have 10 minutes a day to spend on it. The discussion is about the short description on the product's website, not the product/code itself.

Writing 850 words is not difficult. Writing the right 850 words can take a lifetime.

This isn't a class or an assignment. This is real life with stakes.

This is sales. And the right words means tens of thousands of more customers / users / contributors / stars / whatever over time. The wrong ones = dead and forgotten.

Irrelevance is the failure mode here.

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