I hate updating apps on my phone.
MS Authenticator — the font got so large it looks like a senior phone. Was 12 rows, now 8.
The OnePlus clock app got an update. Now it shows 24-hour format. On an analog dial.
The team that shipped this thinks they improved the product? Product manager looked at the metrics and decided this was better. Nobody asked the users.
Roll back? On your phone — find an old APK or restore from backup. In infrastructure — even more fun.
Official docs for a Grafana Labs utility. Options listed, version matches — doesn’t work. Built the image myself, from some non-master branch, third subdirectory.
Ubuntu 18.04 → 20.04: /usr/bin/python just disappeared. Every Ansible playbook broke. Silently.
This isn’t laziness. It’s learned pain.
“Works” doesn’t mean “will work after the update.”
That’s why DevOps engineers prefer not to touch what works. Sometimes it’s the only reasonable call.