@glyph and because "we have to spend double the engineer hours maintaining two things" is easy for an entity to understand and act on and "users dont have agency in choosing how the code they run on their computer works" is this fuzzy externality , i think we probably tend to act in favor of the former more often than we should. that probably can't mean maintaining parallel designs in perpetuity after a redesign is considered necessary, but maybe it means that users get, idk, months rather than days to "onboard" themselves.