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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

I know. That is why I started my statement by stating that I don't like the framing. It treats "efficiency" as the point of software. As the thing, that we should care about when judging software.

But it isn't. It is user experience. And yes, efficiency is part of that. Both, efficiency in execution and efficiency of use.

And the user experience has improved a lot (ignoring intentional anti patterns to exploit the user that are fairly common, but i think we can agree to ignore that for the sake of the conversation)