Such an amount of venting opinion deserves at least one more comment on realities than Katherine’s or indeed Lee’s.
Here’s that reality: Today’s software is complicated
It’s much more so than in years past. Even (or especially) the ideas of ‘correct’ get more complicated – and more varied, and indeed never may be completely closed…
Thus development becomes a loop. You get something out there that works, and then you improve it.
This is the way the more forward-looking software operations across the world do it, and not less by days, but more.
Scrivener certainly qualifies as complicated software. It has indeed, very complicated tasks.
It serves the realities of these tasks, already, very well.
The problem here is in language – which should be our forté in these parts, no?
That language circles around the word Release.
I don’t know what might satisfactorily move Scrivener better into expressing the world it lives in; that’s up to Keith, as he will tell you, and his quite devoted and intelligent team.
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I could say that much complex software, such as CMS systems (which pretty much relate to Scrivener) use many point releases – in fact on a calibrated system where the number is broken by decimal points, and each range indicates what kind of changes to expect.
= Big numbers, as 2, 3 etc, so-called breaking changes; the software works differently in part.
= Next decimal, as 3.2, it changes, adds features, doesn’t break anything already there.
=And so forth.
= when feedback says a point release may not live up to its number, you get another quick release (number incremented) that does.
= this works, by the way.
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Another that I 've seen and liked actually is the wonderful Markdown composing editor Typora. It kind of uses these numbers, but just goes on and on releasing, feature by feature added, at any minor or major level. This also works, for its scale.
So. My closing would be that we should just respect Lee, Tiho, AmberV, and anyone else who works so stalwartly to bring us the Scrivener software which does work.
For writing, yes?? Regardless of what number you think it is.
Details, we can keep helping them achieve. Also, yes.
We can do that best, I would feel, thus venture, by the respect that better awareness gives.
Clive