> "I remember seeing a video on here where someone actually booted up a computer from the 2000's and showed how snappy everything was, including Visual Studio"
Was it this one? Casey Muratori ranting about Visual Studio Debugger slowness, and he shows a video of Visual Studio opening and debugging faster on a single core Pentium 4 from 20 years earlier - https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U?t=2160
Or this one? Roger Clark developing Notepad in C++ on Windows 2000 and commenting how fast Visual Studio opens: https://youtu.be/Z2b-a4r7hro?t=491
Yeah, that's the one! And hmm, it's interesting that there's more than one video out there going "look how fast old computers were from a user standpoint". They've really been boiling the frog when it comes to terrible UX over the past 20 years.
Given the refinements to the hardware, the modern scale of manufacturing and accessible market, and the sheer amount of engineering manpower a tech company can bring to bear nowadays, you'd think standards would have risen into the stratosphere, but instead the tech consumer is cowed into accepting slow, buggy, abusive, invasive trash.
Was it this one? Casey Muratori ranting about Visual Studio Debugger slowness, and he shows a video of Visual Studio opening and debugging faster on a single core Pentium 4 from 20 years earlier - https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U?t=2160
Or this one? Roger Clark developing Notepad in C++ on Windows 2000 and commenting how fast Visual Studio opens: https://youtu.be/Z2b-a4r7hro?t=491