> I have approximately zero of these issues.

I don't believe you.

Here's one example:

> > focus should never move without the user doing it", On iOS using Chrome: you visit a webpage. That page has an ad for an app. The app-store opens, which steals focus from Chrome. This is on a "modern" browser and OS.

Most of his rant is accurate and is not related to old browsers or old OSs but to the fucking stupid things that many web designers do.

Never happened to me. Like most people, I don't tap on ads (especially for apps).

So you're just stuck picking which way you want to be screwed over, eh?

If a product is developed correctly, it will please less than 100% of people. Some people will never be happy with what's out there.

I'm one of the whatever percent of people that is mostly satisfied with my browser. It stays almost entirely out of my way. My UX issues on the web are typically due to the web.

So to answer your question, some people may be making that choice, but I, like most people, am not.

The problem here is when someone is happy with what they have, but would be less happy with the new version because it sacrifices something which was important to them. Then they are stuck with a choice between allowing their computer to become less useful and allowing it to continue to be less secure. It's not clear that "upgrade anyway" is always the right choice.

Yeah, rounded corners. ouch. He is so screwed now.

He has to update to get security fixes. When updating also fucks perfectly good software, well, he has a point.

And it's something that many people have noticed and commented on. See ancient discussions about the version of Nero / ACDSEE / whatever that don't suck.