User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-5925413-20150517224318/@comment-452-20150518124414

Well, here's a different analogy that I was working on for the Venus prototype, but I don't think I've posted it before, because I've never been able to get it quite right, and (probably) quit reading the comments on that blog post before I got around to posting it.

If I take my car to the mechanic, and they tune the engine, fix the brakes, wax the dash, and vacuum the carpet, but for some reason cover the car in excrement, I'm not going to care how well it runs, or how nice the interior looks. I'm going to look at it, and stop right there. I'm not sure exactly what I'd do about my car, but I'd certainly never go back to that mechanic.

But this analogy doesn't quite work: why would the mechanic do that? Why would the mechanic think it was a good idea in the first place? It doesn't make sense. Also, in theory you could just wash it off the car. I'm not sure it would be possible to wash Venus enough.

I think the cake analogy works a lot better, especially given your point that it's subjective: someone had an idea that they thought people might like, and they baked it, and iced it, and they think it worked, but are apparently unaware that that is a flavour which not all enjoy in a cake.

Of course, I don't think this particular change is bad enough to warrant this particular analogy, but I like it all the same.

Rwo, would it be at all possible for you to post an image highlighting the lost space?

Edit: Oops, I did already use that analogy, in the very first comment to this blog: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog_comment:Rupert_Giles/Layout_Changes:_Breakpoints_and_Typography/@comment-452-20150415180356?permalink=827044#comm-827044