Progressive culture pushing change for change sake definitely sets the stage for constant updates but I think the answer is far more mundane.
Corporations are filled to the brim with useless people. People with inflated job titles and salaries to match it. They have to do SOMETHING to feel important and UI changes are an outlet for that. Someone who finally gets bored of surfing tiktok all day looks for something to do. Or the overseer of project managers of user experience wants to pad their resume for a career upgrade but can't really do anything calls a meeting and demands that we HAVE to modernize the interface to be more inclusive.
I haven't been tracking it closely but I assume that as time goes on, UIs are moving away from words to keep to with illiteracy and globalization.
If they treat it like a hobby project there may be a "coolness" factor at play
If they're hiring programmers maybe the programmers want to justify their salaries
Downside of a small company is it's possible to be "done" with the single product that company produces with no ambition to do anything else. If you're the owner and making money that's great because you can "sit on the beach"; if you're an employee it's not.
I'm surprised nobody else mentioned their stated reasoning: They can't easily focus on bugfixes and improvements when there are two codepaths in production simultaneously. They want all sites on a unified style and code, regardless of what that style is.
Progressive culture pushing change for change sake definitely sets the stage for constant updates but I think the answer is far more mundane.
Corporations are filled to the brim with useless people. People with inflated job titles and salaries to match it. They have to do SOMETHING to feel important and UI changes are an outlet for that. Someone who finally gets bored of surfing tiktok all day looks for something to do. Or the overseer of project managers of user experience wants to pad their resume for a career upgrade but can't really do anything calls a meeting and demands that we HAVE to modernize the interface to be more inclusive.
I haven't been tracking it closely but I assume that as time goes on, UIs are moving away from words to keep to with illiteracy and globalization.
You are probably right but how do you explain the scored/communities updates? They aren't run by a big company..... Are they? Who the fuck knows.
Possible reasons:
If they treat it like a hobby project there may be a "coolness" factor at play
If they're hiring programmers maybe the programmers want to justify their salaries
Downside of a small company is it's possible to be "done" with the single product that company produces with no ambition to do anything else. If you're the owner and making money that's great because you can "sit on the beach"; if you're an employee it's not.
I'm surprised nobody else mentioned their stated reasoning: They can't easily focus on bugfixes and improvements when there are two codepaths in production simultaneously. They want all sites on a unified style and code, regardless of what that style is.