Scott Dorsey wrote:

I would much prefer a system that was actually designed, where
someone sat down and made a decision about what the thing was
supposed to do and then built it to do that and then removed bugs
rather than added features.

Chicken-egg thing really. Features need to be added because of commercial
really - other products may sport such features (sometimes even good and
truely useful ones !) , and 'whatever' OS needs to keep it's user base to
survive.

geoff