So let me see if I understand your sarcasm... The advancement of HTML email, which millions of people use and love, was used in a sarcastic manner to mean something that should not be implemented? Ok then here is my cynicism:
Text based OSes are so old and awful, I think we need full color GUIs, video and voice interfaces, the ability to run numerous programs at once, etc.
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I mean we all know that once GUIs were added to OSes, thats when the bugs really started. You didn't have too many bugs when everything was incredibly simple, you had it when it got more advanced, therefore what we really need to do is go back to the text only days when everything ran stable.
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When things get more complex, problems arise. When I first got my DOS based PC I said that was "good enough," based on your quote that means we should have just stopped there because most people considered that "good enough." Most people considered the Ford Model T with it's maximum speed of ~10mph "good enough." Most people considered the ability to travel by road, rail, and water "good enough" so flight was not needed. Most people considered everything to be "good enough" at one time or another, so if we take your saying to the extreme I wouldn't be sitting here typing this on a computer, I'd have a letter carried by horseback to the coast where it would then be transported on a ship to your country and then it would be again transported by horseback to you, such a system was "good enough" in the 1700s. Even the concept of rubbing sticks together to start a fire to produce heat and light was "good enough" for the cavemen. That doesn't mean we should be sitting hear starting fires and camping out under our huts made of mud and animal skins. Everything was "good enough" until something newer and better came into being, therefore it negates your argument, NOTHING is EVER good enough, because once you think you found something that is, all it means is something thats better hasn't be invented yet. Just because you are happy with the system we have now doesn't mean we should stick with it simply because newer and better technologies will bring uncertainties.
