What it says on the tin.
(If anyone is feeling positive, we could do vice versa also.)
Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac. Perfect balance of features, speed and stablity. Nothing that has happened to Word since has added any value to it.
Photoshop 5. As above, stable and all the features needed for professional graphics and photo editing.
There have been one or two decent added features in the 20+ years since then, but not much more. And now it crashes randomly.
Flickr. Was great until people messed with it.
I'm trying to remember it.
Final Cut Pro.
Ah yes, I remember that causing a storm.
It was incredible. Apple basically handed Adobe an entire industry. Very odd.
Adobe already bought out the graphics industry and killed off Freehand.
The endlessly useful Norton Utilities somehow ended up being the excerable Norton Antivirus.
AVG was a nice and relatively unobtrusive free AV until it became a bloated piece of nagware.
There is definitely some law which compels people to keep adding new functionality to software until the original functionality is destroyed. It is probably a consequence of the third law of thermodynamics.
Good point. Which reminds me.
Acrobat Pro. A once useful tool for preserving the integrity of a document created in any software.
Now a confused, bloated, nagware filled piece of shite.
I still mourn the loss of Lifescape/Google's Picasa, with its easy editing interface and seamless link to online storage.
Firefox bloated like a ripe corpse.
MS Teams has gone from being a decent UC platform to being a laggy, unnavigable skin on virtually every MS application.
Corel Photo Paint...
Before Corel bought Paint Shop Pro and then first buggered around the CPP User interface, then dropped it and then brought it back as Corel Photo-Paint...