Why does luthier even bother?

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Originally Posted by zwiebacksaege

So you complain about how we can dare to raise critics on a beta patch because you think we don't understand the word "beta"?

Correct!

Just replace 'raise critics on' with 'whine about finding a bug in' and you will be 100% correct!

Originally Posted by zwiebacksaege

Well the word "patch" is also inside this, dear friends!

So?

Originally Posted by zwiebacksaege

And patch in my opinion means that an existing thing is made better.

In your opinion, but clearly not everyone opinion.

Originally Posted by zwiebacksaege

I just don't understand why formerly working things need to be destroyed for placing new features - this is just not what I expect to be a "patch" - beta or not.

Because you clearly do not understand the interactions of software changes.. As in how a fix hear can sometimes break something there, or how a coding mistake itself can break something. They are only human, hence the whole concept behind 'beta' testing

Originally Posted by zwiebacksaege

Maybe we just need a new name for it. midnight try-out or something like that...

Nope, just need people understand the meaning of the current word 'beta' in that it means try-out