I think your last para is spot on. There are dimensions of quality people care about, and dimensions they do not.
Websites are a good example. The article says a designer will notice jank. I usually do not care about the design: I want the content, and I care a but about usability (in a limited way - e.g. things that are hard to find annoy me).
Websites and UIs in general are often made worse by people whose measure of quality is aesthetics rather than usability - there have been multiple HN discussions about articles on this topic.
Different people may care about different ones (e.g. one person might want a high performance car, another a comfortable one).
I found the bit about actors accents amusing. American attempts at British accents are always annoying, and it even happens with British actors in American produced things having weird or wrong accents. It is sloppy but its rarely puts me off something I like otherwise. Dealing with other countries and cultures is often done sloppily. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a good example too to anyone who recognises the language people in one village are speaking which is spoken a very long way (certainly well over a thousand miles) from where it is set.
As for SPAs, I do not think preferring MPAs is an unpopular opinion on HN.
> I found the bit about actors accents amusing. [...] It is sloppy but its rarely puts me off something I like otherwise.
From a non native english speaker's point of view it's even more amusing. Why should I care that the accent is from the wrong borough of one of the anglo-saxon countries? They all sound like english to me...
> Websites and UIs in general are often made worse by people whose measure of quality is aesthetics rather than usability
Let's take this opportunity to remind them designers that there are things like contrast and readability, and marking items that can be interacted with as items that can be interacted with...
it just sounds wrong if you know the difference. Imagine you are watching something like that and a character shows up supposedly speaking your native language, but actually speaking another language that sounds vaguely similar.
> Let's take this opportunity to remind them designers that there are things like contrast and readability,
Many years ago I worked for a website aimed at people of, or approaching retirement age. The designers initially used small grey text on a white background.
Websites are a good example. The article says a designer will notice jank. I usually do not care about the design: I want the content, and I care a but about usability (in a limited way - e.g. things that are hard to find annoy me).
Websites and UIs in general are often made worse by people whose measure of quality is aesthetics rather than usability - there have been multiple HN discussions about articles on this topic.
Different people may care about different ones (e.g. one person might want a high performance car, another a comfortable one).
I found the bit about actors accents amusing. American attempts at British accents are always annoying, and it even happens with British actors in American produced things having weird or wrong accents. It is sloppy but its rarely puts me off something I like otherwise. Dealing with other countries and cultures is often done sloppily. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a good example too to anyone who recognises the language people in one village are speaking which is spoken a very long way (certainly well over a thousand miles) from where it is set.
As for SPAs, I do not think preferring MPAs is an unpopular opinion on HN.