Comment by ohdeardear

I think with a comment like this you have absolutely no clue what is relevant for adoption.

Adoption is about offering something that is 1) correct 2) easy to install 3) has reasonable performance 4) stable.

Wireguard provides all of those. OpenVPN was not meeting criterium 1 even a few years ago and IMO, if it doesn't work after a decade of development, it's _never_ going to work.

Now, let's look at your comment, which is full of techno mumbo jumbo (don't worry, I know everything you talk about), doesn't even mention half of those.

I think an extremely naive, but popular position is that when someone comes out with some new tool that "works on their machine", that they assume that everyone else believes immediately that they are not just as stupid as everyone that came before them. This was even true for Wireguard, since Wireguard was _not_ bug free either. In fact, one could argue that Wireguard is still an amateur project despite it working stable for some of my systems.

The problem with software like Wireguard is that there is no incentive to actually make bug free software. If software always works and has all the required features, nobody will call the person or company associated with it anymore. When was the last time that the author of "grep" was recognized as a great programmer? Never. Now, I am not saying that grep is free of bugs, but I just took a fairly stable program as an example. An economy for software like SaaS has much better incentives in that regard (even though they often also do not reach bug free status). curl is also an excellent example of bug ridden software that an entire industry is using, while it is written by an amateur (that has no incentive whatsoever to produce something that doesn't need to have bugs fixed).

If humanity had somewhat more of a collective intelligence, a million people would come together and just all paid $100 to implement a wireguard replacement (possibly even using the same protocol) to perfection such that no new implementation would ever be needed and that would adapt to any hardware automatically. Instead we prefer to continue to fuck around with inferior shit all day long.