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Why would optimising for the power users be wrong though? In most cases if it's good enough for the power users who tend to break things more often than regular people it is perfect for the regular users.

Quite the opposite if the focus too much on the regular users they might get too much noise and never notice issues in the more complex features that only power users tend to use.

You want the heavy users of your product sending in reports not the average Joe because he is less likely to even notice a issue.

Higher level features are less likely to be covered by tests and more likely to break just because of their complexity however you wont have many average people using them.



Because there's much less power users than normal users, and browsers that only cater to power users are useless because they end up not working on any websites. That's webcompat for you.

Former Opera people can tell a few stories there.




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