iWork

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with iWork, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

UI got worse and performs poorly with big files2023-10-31
Feels like beta-quality software that the customer ends up testing2013-12-19
Scripting support was removed, so power users lose automation they relied on2013-10-24
Inspector panel was replaced with a simplified tablet-style UI that is less capable2013-10-24
Scripts that automated Pages and Numbers no longer work after the update2013-10-23
UI is horrid and unproductive, and hard to collaborate in2013-09-29
Slow to load and clunky interface that feels wrong on the web2013-07-23
Must export Pages docs as Word every time and formatting is lost on import2012-02-17
Mac documents don't sync seamlessly, requiring manual upload and download to reach iPad2011-10-14