I'm starting to wonder if it's just me, or if the experience of operating systems, web pages, and software is all getting worse in some ways.
For example, while reading forum posts on my school's web site, there was a post with a long URL; but the box for the post was of course very small, making you have to scroll to see it. But I can't even highlight the whole thing, only the part that I can see. Little things like this shouldn't be an issue at this point in computer.
Finally I manage to copy the link in pieces and put it together to open the PDF. I then can't seem to save it; nothing shows up in the corners or top/bottom when I mouse there, Ctrl+S does nothing, nothing in the menu. Right-clicking didn't seem to work but if I right-clicked in one particular area, I was able to.
Then I open it in Adobe Reader and of course the side-bars take up the entire screen nearly. I go into "Reader Mode" (ie. full-screen) and it's stuck. There's no button, menu item, or seemingly command that I could find to let me out of "Reader Mode".
Anyways, this is just a very small example of what I'm talking about but I'm finding this to be the case with computers and phones. While we're getting lots of new features that can be great, the little things are becoming either broken or painful in some way.
Heck, even Microsoft Edge... the "Forward" button doesn't work after I go "Back" about 75% of the time. It's hardly a new feature or concept.
Am I the only one noticing this stuff? It isn't just Windows, either. OS X, iOS, and even some web pages are becoming buggy/slow.
Sorry for the rant-like post... I'm certain to get the "you're just afraid of / hate change," which I assure you isn't it. I love change but I like change to be for the better. Being critical of change when they become slow, cumbersome, unintuitive, etc isn't unreasonable.
I'm also finding the ability to configure things is going down the drain. I can't stop auto-updates from completely eating my battery and cellular data up when it wants to update while I'm on the go.