I’m opening up this discussion in the hopes of receiving constructive thoughts, nothing more.
One of the benefits of using Scrivener is that, according to Keith and L&L, is that it is ‘bloat-free’, in that it’s an application that doesn’t aim to appease to everyone and really is geared towards writers and the like. What this means is that certain features have been cut out, and some have been added, when comparing this app to something like MS Word.
The thing is, with computers being so fast and powerful these days (going in accordance of course to Moore’s law), I’m wondering if the whole ‘bloat-free’ movement is really necessary anymore. Bloated apps aren’t that bad a thing when you’ve got a zippy computer that can handle it. In fact, zippy computers make the discussion of an app’s bloatedness kind of an antiquated discussion, don’t they?
I know, I know, being pro-bloat might be something of a blasphemy in this forum. But there’s a part of me that wishes that Scrivener could just do EVERYTHING in addition to all the needs of particular writer so I don’t have to ever use MS Word.
I’m figuring I’m probably not in the norm here, but I thought to just shoot my thoughts out to see what others think.