This one caught me by surprise. Publisher is a really great tool to create internal documents…reminds me of the Adobe Fireworks fiasco. They force you to use a tool of which you only need 5% and pay an increase cost (time and subscription) 500%.
I mean, Powerpoint, really? That app should’ve been gone a long time.
It has always been so since the dawn of modern desktops. I don’t see how/why this is noise. This is like a developer at a standup insisting we can make the app faster adding some micro services, flashy UX, and a few months of work while the - end user will still enter 20 order changes in an 8 hour day because that’s the environment.
Thank you for sharing. Same experience here. I felt I was the only one going down this path. Many projects I look at has too many unnecessary layers files etc.
I joined a company recently that has a simple app for end users to take orders over the phone, perform lookup and refunds. Something that can be built in a few days, seriously. When I looked at the code - WTF!!! The previous dev over architected this thing. Unnecessary layers, interfaces etc. one simple change can take hours.
I think developers need a little bit of management experience to understand the impact of these complexity. At the very end, companies just want something usable to stay in the game...a Honda and not a Rolls.
I still think WinForms is one of their best UI framework. As for WPF, intentionally avoided it since day one. I’m not fiddling with no XAML.