root

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2013–2019), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with root, 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 5 complaints

Scrambled mess with terrible interfaces and too many fringe features2019-08-14
Closing a file silently sets histogram references to None, with hidden state causing many gotchas2018-11-16
Opening files fails because the global file object isn't properly changed2014-11-21
Poor documentation on TTree and TBranch makes them hard to understand2014-09-25
Confusing API: Clear on a histogram only clears name and title, needing Reset2013-01-25