Spellcheck is an absolutely perfect example of what happens with technology long-term. Once the hype cycle is over for a certain tech, it gets left to languish, slowly degrading until it's completely useless. We should be far more outraged at how poor basic things like this still are in 2025. They are embarrassingly bad.
> it gets left to languish, slowly degrading until it's completely useless
What do you mean? Code shouldn't degrade if it's not changed. But the iOS spell checker is actively getting worse, meaning someone is updating it.
Real code has dependencies and they sometimes change, including growing undocumented behavior or new bugs.