So, even *if* we kept the old SI alongside the new, it would never change, never
evolve, never grow. And, I don't think anyone wants that.
I, at least, would be perfectly happy with that. I am no Luddite, but OTOH, I deplore the need always to be changing things that work. There is NOTHING in the "old" SI that I need -- or even badly want -- but don't have. All the other stuff you have put into the Beta I can easily get elsewhere -- all I need is another open browser window.
There is genius in the old SI's simplicity and fitness to its intended purpose. You do NOT need to turn it into bloatware. Sometimes, good enough really is. Don't forget, cancer is simply growth out of hand. You don't need to destroy the essential functional simplicity of SI. (Take the example of WordPerfect which took the best word processor in the world, 5.2 for DOS, and "improved" it to the point where it is essentially impossible any more just to type and print a simple document without vast numbers of unnecessary steps and options.)
So count me as one vote who would happily use the present SI forever with no changes, no "improvements", no cancerous growth. Just all my friends around me here, until death do us part. |
