Cav's Place

Noticed last night that the old version of Google Analytics was removed completely, and glancing at what was written on the right led me to the announcement about it as well, so what I feared had to happen, finally happened. Now, despite having created a dashboard meant to mirror the one I had made in the old version, I’m left scratching my head and spending several minutes to get to the reports that I could see at a glance before, though the old version was in itself worse than the one before it in several ways.
Admittedly, from what I could quickly determine back when I did look through the new version’s features, there were a few useful ones being introduced. However, they’re far from being able to compensate for all the bad changes, and in fact the ratio between good and bad changes this time is clearly worse than it was when the version which has now been discontinued was introduced. But that certainly seems to be the rule when any major site makes any significant changes, as I don’t recall any occasion during the past at least several years when I wasn’t extremely unhappy with the result, or when any of the major changes which I’d have liked to see were introduced.
I guess you get what you pay for, as they say. Or, as I recently saw it written somewhere, if you’re not buying, you’re the one being sold… Then again, it’s not that much better when you are buying either, as products available for purchase, regardless of what we’re talking about, seem to be getting worse and worse as well, whether it’s because they’re made to cater to the lowest common denominator, because the manufacturers are cutting corners to reduce costs, because they’re designed by idiots or for whatever other reason.