That's what you said.
When I said "Who cares about that ? Engineering is about results, not ease of work.", I was answering about "devil of a time".
> The reasons why you are wrong are contained in the damn links I went to the trouble of assembling for you.
The links you talk about might have to do with the IT business and how things go down between engineers, investors and managers. This is such an ugly topic, I don't even want to even try to talk about it. It's just not interesting. You don't go forward innovation by asking marketers and consumers. Marketing is about how you sell stuff, not what you actually sell.
That's what I hate about business in general. Business wants to do stuff, but it has no idea what to do. That's the reason the soviets were the first to send sputnik and a man on the moon. The US just followed. That's how innovation is broken. But that's just another topic.
I could not let you tell me that "things are good the way they are, because if they're like that, it's because we explored the business of it, and that's what we found out."