Interestingly, you could have made the same point in computer graphics in the 80ies/90ies. But was anybody forced to stay VGA? Only to show how crappy user experience under VGA is? No.
This is a double edged sword or more abstract: It is a multi facetted problem:
There may be the lazy developer, but that cliche is too easy to exploit
There may be some kind of economic pressure in form of deadlines
But there are also:
Increased demands on the side of customers or (end-)users. Yes my Nokia 3210 had incredible battery lifetime. But the best you could do with it was to play snake. Nobody wants that again, do we?
More powerful devices which would otherwise be idling all the time
Better networks for more and more people
The question
So here is the question. Are we on the right track?
is misleading. Say we - as developer - come to the conclusion, that we - indeed - are on the wrong track, what would be the right track? Only display textual information?
Instead of focusing on "user friendly"-ness, we have started focusing more and more on "developer friendly"-ness.
If you take into account what I said above, this is plain wrong.
It starts with the wrong assumption of a hypothetical "we", which is only true for some cases.
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Interestingly, you could have made the same point in computer graphics in the 80ies/90ies. But was anybody forced to stay VGA? Only to show how crappy user experience under VGA is? No.
This is a double edged sword or more abstract: It is a multi facetted problem:
But there are also:
Increased demands on the side of customers or (end-)users. Yes my Nokia 3210 had incredible battery lifetime. But the best you could do with it was to play snake. Nobody wants that again, do we?
More powerful devices which would otherwise be idling all the time
Better networks for more and more people
The question
is misleading. Say we - as developer - come to the conclusion, that we - indeed - are on the wrong track, what would be the right track? Only display textual information?
If you take into account what I said above, this is plain wrong.
It starts with the wrong assumption of a hypothetical "we", which is only true for some cases.