> my experience exactly
>
> hate updates.  IMHO, they're just sales tactics to get you to buy newer,
> "faster" hardware now that they updated your old hardware into complete junk by
> making it run far more "optimizations" than it can deal with...

I am currently employed full-time to write these "updates".

You know we actually spend all day, every day, trying to actually 
improve our product?

Sadly, sometimes you try to improve the product and end up actually 
making it worse. For example, we deleted a load of crufty old code and 
replaced it with a single, streamlined class which is far smaller, 
simpler, easier to test, etc. Unfortunately, it also exposed a Linux 
kernel bug whereby our product can't read HFS+ filesystems anymore. :-S

I assure you, we didn't break HFS+ support on purpose! Indeed, a few 
kernel updates later, and it's working again. It's weird like that 
sometimes...

OTOH, I've seen updates where you seriously have to wonder if the 
manufacturer is actually trying to make you stop using the product. 
(E.g., why does Windows 8 exist?)

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