This is not a shitpost, I'm serious. Adding things is so easy that any computer can do it. Determining whether it improves the whole (and leaving the whole intact when removing the excess) is purely human, because it requires a point of view.

March 10, 2026 - 13:04 UTC

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Once you see the elephant, you need to re-narrate its features to the blind men.
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It's much easier to pitch adding stuff to stakeholders, too. You can get budgets for features and acclaim for shipping.

Who gets resources and incentives to take things out? And yet, there is broad consensus that shit is too bloated and NEEDS trimming.
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in almost every scenario in enterprise software, the best design choice to support an understandable and efficient user experience would be to remove at least half of the features and options.
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Love seeing those net 20 k lines removal diff

Did a 100 k one this morning of useless JavaScript

Next time I will certainly clap for myself
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I just wish they hadn't cut the PC port, I was looking forward to that as someone without a console
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Tsushima was ported after 4 years so gotta hunker down and wait I guess
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There's a fun thing at my job where they had a bit of software that did a shitton of stuff, then they said "we should do a b2b version that's simplified" so did that, then they started adding stuff to it, then they said "let's do an ultra-lightweight version" and soon started adding stuff to that
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The b2b "simplified" version has now reached feature parity with the OG software btw. Looking forward to seeing ultra-lightweight version get there someday!
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