Small tools age better than giant suites

I keep noticing that small-batch software is easier to trust once it has to live through real use. A focused app can be a bit rough around the edges and still feel reliable, while the giant all-in-one thing starts making strange tradeoffs everywhere.

Has anyone else found that the simpler tool stays useful longer, even when it looks less impressive on the surface?

Suites always feel like a live-service game that keeps patching in new systems and somehow nerfs your main build every season. You wake up after a redesign and the one workflow you relied on is buried under three tabs because they had to make room for “AI dashboard insights” or whatever.

Single-purpose tools staying boring is honestly the dream—like, congrats on not inventing new problems for me this week.