whostolemyhat

Did you read the next sentence?

they're prepared to deploy reams of incoherent code? Gosh

Left-pad was made at a time when tree-shaking wasn't really around, so it was good practice to only include the functions you needed to avoid making websites too heavy. If you just needed a small function then it'd be silly to include a huge utility library like Underscore.

Yes, why bother learning how to use things?

(or invest in UX/user research)

5 years away?

Right, so you don't really understand the problem area and don't know the syntax, so think that something that you can't immediately understand must be a negative change.

Could you give any examples? I'd say GDPR was an incredibly well-thought-out bit of legislation

Why not?

DMA already paying off

Amazing, you read a fairly brief article with a terse description of the problem, and are now convinced you know better than the author.

Why's that? I've always found Namecheap's UI to be pretty bad - slow, inconsistent on mobile and takes several clicks to find the list of domains I actually own.

What about that is positive?