chillchilla

S2 is attractive, but the corpus of use cases outside the Pokemon Go community is quite small. The sheer number of companies and hobbyists using H3 for analytics across a wide spectrum makes it much more attractive than S2. H3 functions are built directly into Snowflake DB for example, and h3 extensions / plugins are widely available. I tried and tried to use S2 in my company but the lack of available use cases and examples made it tough to adopt.

For every person who spends 2 hours of their year dealing with US bureaucracy there are loads more that spend untold hours. I myself spent almost two days figuring out my taxes because they're just more complicated. And people dealing with unemployment, health insurance via COBRA/medicaid/medicare, food stamps, registering to vote, applying for various licenses, etc. It's ungodly amounts of time when you add it all up.

I AM convinced it's a major problem. Maybe not for white-collar people on Hacker News who have paid sick leave, random leave times and no expectations of certain hours, and high pay. But for many working class people in the US dealing with bureaucratic nonsense IS a big deal.

Or 3) they run loads of A/B experiments to optimize engagement or some target metric and they've reached a local minima and are unable to escape it without a lot of political will or Product Managers willing to stick their necks out.