>>>An ms specialty it was, is
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>>As a student journalist I was assigned to interview a famous architect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neutra who was designing a library for the college. (Google Swirbul Library to see the finished product.)
>>I spent an evening with Mr. Neutra and his wife at the Garden City hotel on Long Island where he told me his visions for the library.
>>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/27/richard-neutras-architectural-vanishing-act
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>>That recent New Yorker article gave me some new insights to Mr. Neutra’s genius and made me think of him when I read this post.
>>So, with that verbose preamble, what does that have to do with Xamarin?
>>Mr. Neutra told me that he never designed sidewalks for his buildings. He planted grass around them and after a year or so he came back and looked at the paths that people had worn, and put his sidewalks there.
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>makes sense to this lazy bum - when wrapping in maintainance,
>I don't spec out every detail, only the really needed stuff

Yes, I've since come to appreciate what he meant and try to include only the basics till real users have a go at it.

I often think that MS is doing that with products and features - putting out some half-built versions - watching which ones become popular and then building them out while discarding the rest.
Before figuring that out I was burned with several where I invested a lot of time learning something that shortly evaporated.
Now I let others do that and look for the survivors.