Quote Originally Posted by Collin_Sky View Post
Everything makes sense once you consider that Yoshi is, in fact, not a good developer.
Risk reduction -- the man, the myth, the legend.

Start by scrapping customization. Continue by scrapping compositionally-varied strategy. Plot the course by following prior trend. Deviate minimally.
/shrug

All of the issues involving third party tools are of his own doing. By reneging on his promise prior to 2.0 launch of an addon API he has lost the ability to control what is okay, and what is not okay. By ignoring the overwhelming demand for some sort of parser, he has allowed feature creep to create tools such as triggernometry and cactbot. By making the login experience so basic, quicklauncher was created and everything that came along with it. Again, a failure on the lack of an official addon API.
This one, though, is what annoys me most. If one builds their value around just keeping the ship sailing, the least one could do is preempt improvements against obvious storms or wear. Instead, he's mostly defaulted to over-promises, half-promises, "It's just not doable from a technical standpoint", and a bunch of backpedaling.