I hate that I like Dia now

If anything looks wrong, read on the site! I loved the Arc Browser. It was (is?) such a good web browser that stood out for re-thinking what a browser UI should look like. They weren’t held back by what other browsers do; they looked at how people use the web browser and all the things you can do on the web now, and worked on making something that enhanced it. In doing so, it became massively influential, causing pretty much all other browsers to rethink their UIs in some way. It did, however, fail to fulfill the ambitious goals The Browser Company had for it. The reason, their CEO said, is that its radical departure from classic browser UI (you might say Arc’s raison d’être) was too unfamiliar for the mainstream. So, they stopped Arc’s development and launched Dia, a very “pivot to AI” moment, to please investors. Having zero interest in Dia, I struggled but found a decent alternative in Vivaldi. Lately though I’ve been looking up the Dia updates and the feeling I get is that they…