That's because it is. There's a special circle of hell for whoever invented "planned obsolescence."
I think it's a separate but related issue compared to feature loss, though. Why are modern mixers greatly inferior to older models? Probably because people don't cook much anymore. If you don't bake bread, you don't need dough hooks; if you don't beat eggs, you don't need a whisk; if you only do very simple things, 5 speeds may cover them. But then it becomes impossible for people who want to do those things to do them with that tool. The tool is better than beating by hand, but only if you have the right one. If it no longer exists, you have to go back to doing it by hand, or give it up altogether.
I have sullenly given up on more and more things, or stepped back in technological evolution, just because the modern version was incapable of performing the tasks I needed done.
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ysabetwordsmith) wrote2018-01-21 09:12 pm
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I'm really hoping to get the WIP finished this month. I'm so close.
Re: Thoughts
I think it's a separate but related issue compared to feature loss, though. Why are modern mixers greatly inferior to older models? Probably because people don't cook much anymore. If you don't bake bread, you don't need dough hooks; if you don't beat eggs, you don't need a whisk; if you only do very simple things, 5 speeds may cover them. But then it becomes impossible for people who want to do those things to do them with that tool. The tool is better than beating by hand, but only if you have the right one. If it no longer exists, you have to go back to doing it by hand, or give it up altogether.
I have sullenly given up on more and more things, or stepped back in technological evolution, just because the modern version was incapable of performing the tasks I needed done.