This rant has been written 1000 times on this site. You joined this site 16 days ago. I'm getting annoyed at losing whatever little signal this site has left. HN is under intense quality pressure right now. COVID started a huge decline of quality on this site and the election accelerated it even further. Can we please, please actually talk about distributed systems for once? Like, please?

I'm sorry you've worked at places that made distributed systems out of things that didn't need to be. I know of places that rolled their own issue trackers out of Excel that could have honestly managed their tasks on some post-it notes on a board. Does that mean I need to write a rant about Excel and how stupid its functionality is?

I'm exasperated. You joined this site 16 days ago. Stop it. Please engage with a technical topic without ranting about how you feel. Please.

So now that was my little rant. But I know I'm going to get downvoted because the appeal of HN, as evidenced by the fact that you joined 16 days ago, is to rant, talk about politics, be cynical, or otherwise find emotional catharsis among nerds. It's basically another big tech subreddit.