A/B tests suck if you are in the test group and suddenly, completely unannounced, a functionality you have been relying on stops working or gets changed and you are now stuck with the problem.
> None of that applies: both the A and B in A/B tests are software versions, for which there are zero legal requirements.
There should be, that is my point.
All that A/B testing and the constant other changes even in minor patch versions only lead to update hesitancy in people, which in turn leads to security issues because people don't update their software because they don't want to be disrupted in their workflows.
Not to mention that most A/B testing is essentially pseudoscience at best if not outright fraud that's being peddled by people wanting to sell A/B testing "solutions", or the implications on user privacy because of the mandatory phone-home.
FWIW this is what made Microsoft so big in the corporate world: for decades you could expect that nothing major would change, you would not need to re-train your employees or buy new software. That changed with Windows XP (although it was easy to roll back at least the optical changes) and got exponentially worse with the utter crap that is Windows 11.
> None of that applies: both the A and B in A/B tests are software versions, for which there are zero legal requirements.
There should be, that is my point.
All that A/B testing and the constant other changes even in minor patch versions only lead to update hesitancy in people, which in turn leads to security issues because people don't update their software because they don't want to be disrupted in their workflows.
Not to mention that most A/B testing is essentially pseudoscience at best if not outright fraud that's being peddled by people wanting to sell A/B testing "solutions", or the implications on user privacy because of the mandatory phone-home.
FWIW this is what made Microsoft so big in the corporate world: for decades you could expect that nothing major would change, you would not need to re-train your employees or buy new software. That changed with Windows XP (although it was easy to roll back at least the optical changes) and got exponentially worse with the utter crap that is Windows 11.