[Walter Soyka] “I just can’t think of any other circumstance where a leading tool manufacturer has replaced a tool with a total redesign that swaths of their existing user base couldn’t use for their work, let alone been rewarded for it.”
Whoa. Yesterday I was just thinking I would not post my hammer analogy, but now I will:
I installed floorboards and trim around my house. At first I used a nail gun but it proved too cumbersome for such a small job. So I used a tack hammer instead. That is, the nail gun is an improvement on the tack hammer, but my job was so small I needed to use the other tool, the less complex tool.
I’ll let the ideologues debate whether X is the nail gun or the tack hammer.