... that when a product gets successful enough for global acceptance the vendors (or their sales team, more like) insist on porking it up until it's almost unusable.
I was a fan of Peter Norton back in the dark ages... Nortons the first to go; then McAff got offered on a new machine; I took it up to my cost. ZA never tempted me - looked too complicated from the word go. As for HP and their software
It really doesn't have to be so!
... does it????