Games have been becoming unplayable due to DRM servers shutting down. IoT devices are becoming bricks when they go out of support.
DRM and internet dependency are the ultimate tools in capitalisms planned obsolescence toolbox. You no longer have to wait for a product to fail, you can simply remotely destroy it so the customer buys a new one.
This gets said about 5000 feature on windows. A good OS doesn't require you to spend an hour turning off 400 toggles only to have them turn back on in an update
How often are people taking a microSD card from their camera and putting it in their phone considering on a lot of devices this means pulling the battery out.
Also they could support fat while not having the main system storage using fat.
What is more astounding to me is not the fact that it happened, but that apple did nothing about it. Years later they are still selling a broken device, and people are still buying it.
I built a SPA and found making the API and linking everything up to be needless overhead. The way I find works best is using rails templates to simply insert a div with all the data needed in the attributes and then having react render everything.
Plain JS is the same. How often do you search something and find the 2012 way includes copying a 20 line util function and the latest way has it built in to the language.
The real metric of quality is does it do what you expected. PHP is a gun that sometimes shoots backwards with no sensible reason where as rust has a gyroscope that can work out when the gun is pointing at your face and requires that you turn off the safety first.
Entire classes of bugs simply don't exist in better languages.
DRM and internet dependency are the ultimate tools in capitalisms planned obsolescence toolbox. You no longer have to wait for a product to fail, you can simply remotely destroy it so the customer buys a new one.