This goes a bit deep. Seems like it's going to be about customers being too stupid to figure things out, but it ends up for me a story about engineers not accurately anticipating customers' needs.
10 years ago I wouldn't have imagined this, but this is me every time I have to use Windows (e.g., occasionally for work) or help someone else with it.
If it helps, you're not alone. I've spent decades of my life pursuing a career, and in the past five or so years I've come to realize I will never accomplish the things I used to dream about, like making an impact in my little field, etc. It's a really, really unpleasant realization. The only silver lining I can find for myself (and it is helpful) is that I can let go of the "must excel" and "must go above and beyond" mentalities. It frees up time and mental resources.
I can't say for sure, but it certainly seems like the people believing these things speak in ways reminiscent of people with delusion disorders (e.g., schizophrenia). The patterns of how they use words and concepts just feels very delusiony to me.
Depends on where in Canada. Toronto? Vancouver? Montreal? Oy, insane real estate prices. Bumfuck, Alberta? Manitoba? Rural anywhere? Much cheaper.
And regardless of the price I could afford the utility and maintenance on a condo or apartment in a major city in Canada (if I could ever afford one) much more easily than on a castle in France. Not a great comparison.
I'm sure it's a hard problem to solve. However, I'm still not using a product missing a critical feature just because the developer found it too difficult to include the feature. Sympathy to the developer but also I need that feature.
If I believed in a god I'd ask them to save me from the baby communists who see a sickle and hammer on a flag and insist they must have represented utopia.
Remember, kids: Don't do genocide, or else after only two years of murdering people wholesale the UN might say something about it and let you keep murdering.
I've taught statistics for over 20 years. I flipflop on this constantly, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. Even more disturbing: I don't have a consistent position, at least grammatically, on whether it's singular or plural.
Thinking one step further: Even if I somehow got into MENSA (unlikely), I can't imagine ever saying, "I see you have a MENSA discount..." ugh.