Comment by the_snooze

>ship a new feature and make sure people use it by making it as annoyingly in-your-face as possible, so you can show "impact".

Modern consumer tech in a nutshell. It's less about serving the paying end-user and more about self promotion. There's so much neediness and entitlement in the design.

You're quite right about the relative calm in Linux. It knows it's an operating system, and an OS is supposed to stay out of the way and simply support the user's needs, not be a billboard for junk.