Indicative of everything wrong with software today. Everything is bloated, slow and buggy.
Yes indeed. It would seem that the availability of ever faster hardware, development frameworks, and that they can easily push out updates over time, have made developers/vendors lazy and inefficient. Pride, quality, and craftsmanship, as far as it relates to most modern software, are sorely lacking. I can remember the days where software was highly optimized, lean, and releases were tested
thoroughly in-house, since getting patches/updates required physical media and were difficult, slow, and expensive, to propagate.
Games are the absolute worst offender these days; I see AAA titles going for ~$60 -> $80 that are
extremely bug ridden, clearly not functional, incomplete, and it's stunning how they are released in the state they are...in many cases they are in what could charitably called a 'pre-alpha' stage. Then, they have the gall to push out DLC packs (more $$$) when the game itself is still far, far, from even just 'working'. And don't get me started on the nefarious trend of 'Pre-Purchasing' titles that are months in the future...amazing people still partake in that.
One bright spot in all of this is the most current version of Blender (v3.0, released last month), which is 3D modeling software. The main rendering/ray-tracing engine, called Cycles, had a long awaited, complete engine rewrite finally released. The overall improvements for the efficiency/speed of rendering is
astounding, almost an order of magnitude. Even on my older GTX1080 GPU I can actually use the ray-tracing engine to model in the viewport in pretty much real-time; while it's not ultra-snappy like the current RTX30xx GPU's, the overall optimization is fantastic, and it's good to see some developers still strive for 'getting it right'.
Almost wet myself when I got a 16k ram pack as a present from my dad.
I hear you! I remember upgrading my Commodore PET 4016 (16K RAM) to a 4032 (32K RAM) by installing 16x1K RAM discrete chips onto the motherboard. They all came in a large tube, and after I carefully installed them (didn't want to bend any pins, etc.) I thought I was now able to take over the Universe since I now had a
whopping 32K of RAM!!!