> Probably should have spent another 3-5 years getting the first release in better shape instead of spending 3-5 years flinging flaming turds to the paying customers.
I wonder if the company would have had the money to pay salaries for 3 years, unless for those "paying customers" that obviously started paying much earlier than that.
And
> The executives slowly released they inexplicably lost half the business compared to the previous generation as upstart competitors stole their market share.
s/released/realized/ ? Exactly one of my worries. Maybe they could have created those competitors themselves. Two brands, one for the original product and one for a product with a somewhat different layout and all the improvements that they did not dare to add the the original product. But then you need a third brand, a fourth one, etc.
I think software is just very young. We've been doing it for maybe 2 generations. The current way, saas, ci/cd, is like half a generation old.
We're still at the "search" phase, there is very little wisdom at social and personal levels.
It's clear from the rapid flux in tooling, methods, ideology, and the results, that we basically have no idea what we're doing re: using computers and building software. A lot of the self assuredness of current advice is self soothing behavior.
> Probably should have spent another 3-5 years getting the first release in better shape instead of spending 3-5 years flinging flaming turds to the paying customers.
I wonder if the company would have had the money to pay salaries for 3 years, unless for those "paying customers" that obviously started paying much earlier than that.
And
> The executives slowly released they inexplicably lost half the business compared to the previous generation as upstart competitors stole their market share.
s/released/realized/ ? Exactly one of my worries. Maybe they could have created those competitors themselves. Two brands, one for the original product and one for a product with a somewhat different layout and all the improvements that they did not dare to add the the original product. But then you need a third brand, a fourth one, etc.