> And the most baffling thing to me is that such things are so widely accepted. I've seen many users shrugging it off with a "that's just how computers are" mindset; many things are implemented so badly people don't even expect them to work properly.

To me, this is the most damning evidence that our industry sucks at its job. We're so bad at making our products that users expect them to be slow and broken all the time.