Windows

The only benefits of notepad were that it treated everything as plain text and that it was lightweight. Now its bloated and you'll never be able to trust it not to make unintended changes. Well done...

What? No. Just bring back Wordpad if people need formatting you fucks.

Seriously what the fuck is this?

Notepad is specifically for unformatted flat text files.

Adding tabs? Not needed, but OK. AI? Go fuck yourself, but no one is going to stop these people from bloating their CoPilot user numbers however they can.

But formatting? No one asked for this! Not even the stupid management structure at Microsoft. If I'm using Notepad it's precisely because I don't want or need formatting!

What Microsoft says: We're getting rid of Wordpad.
What Microsoft means: We're getting rid of Notepad.

Enshitification knows no bounds

It's interesting how similar patterns arise in different areas of capitalism. For instance, cars. A Toyota Rav4 used to be significantly smaller and less complex. As time went on, features were added and mission creep took effect. Same with countless other models throughout the decades. And same with notepad here. More bloated and complex, jack of all trades and master of none. Erasing distinctions between toolsets, ultimate convenience with everything at your fingertips, etc etc. Convenience at the price of a logical workflow, with no thought given as to why the tools were in different places to begin with. It's like the ultimate purpose of capitalism is to increase entropy to maximum.