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Two months later: "oh wow, I can't believe they didn't tell me about (next implemented feature you may care about)"

They have a lot of different users with varying skill levels. One time popups demonstrating new features is a net win for them.

I guess you could build a toggle for "disable tutorials" for the 2% that need it.

One time popups demonstrating new features is a net win for them.

It's not just a one time popup though.

It's a "net win" for whatever manager and/or engineer is trying to get an internal promotion by externally promote their new feature. Every company seems to want to add popups everywhere in order to promote their new features.

(The worst is GitHub, who are constantly promoting new features that I don't care about.)

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