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I'd go a step further: if you change the UI for no functional reason, you are a bad person who is causing needless consternation, confusion, and productivity loss. Even if you believe you have a functional reason, you had better think really long and hard about whether the supposed improvement you want is worth the pain of every single user needing to adapt to that change.

I'd go a step further: if you change the UI for no functional reason, you are a bad person who is causing needless consternation, confusion, and productivity loss.

On the flip side, who do get to be promoted.

You're telling me you released a product that was so incomplete and it requires weekly updates?

Disagree. It's a lot more involved than that.

What is more involved?

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