Conversely, the fact that it works for you doesn't preclude it being buggy, or problematic in other ways, for other people.

I don't understand the motivation of "works for me" comments like this.

Is your point that you believe other people are just hallucinating their problems, or that you believe they've 'used it wrong' and brought problems on themselves, or that if you personally haven't experienced a bug, then it's not an important bug?

> Is your point that you believe other people are just hallucinating their problems...?

It happens when the sightings are emotional. For instance:

The Colorado Mystery Drones Weren’t Real

The mysterious drone sightings that captured national attention were a classic case of mass hysteria.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/884xv3/the-colorado-myste...

Flip side of same phenomenon is the "snappier" meme.

I personally like seeing the “works for me” posts. It helps me gauge if the reported problems are universal, or just hitting a subset, which helps me decide when to roll the upgrade dice.

BTW, I did finally upgrade to Catalina last week and it’s been going fine, with the exception of losing 50% of my Steam library to the 32-bit graveyard....

I believe the vast majority of people, even those on hacker news, have no idea how their computer works. Mosy of the time PEBKAC is the problem.

When someone loses their data because they don't know how to use a computer it is easy to just blame the vendor.

Does losing data when people use a product like they always do also count within the scope of "doesn't work the way you want" and mean that Apple didn't mess up?

Nobody was complaining of the changes here but the fact that Catalina is littered with bugs. It’s absolutely impossible that the bugs somehow function well on your Catalina installation. I suspect you’re either a fanboy and that you put your judgement after your pride or maybe you are a light user and didn’t run into these bugs