Stuff like health care is indeed broken. But at a much more mundane level, there are tons of absolutely stupid, juvenile omissions from every kind of software. For example, how do you put a list of your files into a document? According to Micro$oft, you take a screen capture and paste an image into your document. (Unless you remember DOS and piping — you can do it in Command mode). I have a gif image with a 16 color palette. How can I rotate it and get a clean image with pure colors? I can’t — not in any drawing program I’ve ever seen. In every case, you have to increase the color depth to 24 bit, rotate it, then manually clean up the screwed up colors. Even Gimp, which is supposedly dedicated to users.

And the biggie. There’s a ransomware baddie called Petya. It holds your entire computer hostage by encrypting the Master File Table. What moron ever thought it was a good idea to have only one way to access computer data? Any data that isn’t physically destroyed should be accessible and readable. How about a header on each sector identifying the type of program used to create the data, and the preceding and following sectors?

“Professional” software designers seem to be more preoccupied with proper indentation and looking down their noses at other programmers than including obvious functionality.