Also, they make random changes to UI and functionality, and I think these are disproportionately annoying because you notice when things you use or like change for the worse much more than you notice when things change for the better (this may be partly because you have workarounds in place and don't notice, or because your workarounds stop working and you have to back off and see why). And then eventually they say obviously nobody is using 1998-style macros any more and turn them off and your software breaks. I don't *care* whether 2013 macros are objectively better; I don't want to have to spend time learning about them (and relearning about the obsolete ones so I can tell how to reimplement them).

I find increasingly that my brain is refusing to engage with things because it has spotted that three years later they will have changed again. VCRs, for example. I'm fairly sure I could still work the one we had when I was eighteen, but every time one breaks and we upgrade I engage with it less. LJ: I might have been vaguely interested in styles and themes in 2003, but they've changed it without warning more than once and now I just want it to stay still and inoffensive and legible (and ideally not in Russia).

So I'm not interested to the same extent as I was in whether things work pleasingly, because even if they do I expect them to change without warning and get worse.