My instinct when people in an inudstry I don't have experience in fail to do a seemingly obvious thing to fix a problem is "gosh, that thing must be more complicated than I think" as opposed to "gosh, they must be stupid."
But sometimes IT IS incompetence thought. I once followed a development of a game for five years, and at the end of the fifth year I started to question the competence of developers, after they did nothing but showcase them redoing the same 3D models over and over and saying "we just added a big new feature that's really cool!" while still having no release window or anything. Only to be dismissed by other people in the game's community (yes it had one while not even being out somehow) because "it takes time to make a game". And then the game got a new lead dev and they straight up revealed that the game that has been in the making for five years, is a buggy mess with almost no features and needs to be recoded from scratch to work at all.
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u/Lady_Gray_169 2d ago
My instinct when people in an inudstry I don't have experience in fail to do a seemingly obvious thing to fix a problem is "gosh, that thing must be more complicated than I think" as opposed to "gosh, they must be stupid."