Mostly because they have to wait for Half-Life 3 in order not to confuse the customers.

And then call it "critically important for everyone" when it only affects the users of one particular tool (which used to be popular 20 years ago, but is one a decline ever since).

Is there really not a single answer saying "I would rather not make everybody's lives more inconvenient just because I could"?

They cut the size down to 30 MB on iOS in 2019, but they're back to 110 since (on Android, it's 60 MB).

EDIT: In terms of updates, they are pretty stable at one update a week on both systems.

If there would be the kind of budget you're talking about, they'd just buy a house, or rather three (one to live in, two to rent out, to re-finance the other one) and that whole question would be obsolete.

When you were deciding for this processor, Intel's similarly priced i5s were no match for it, so if you were looking for Intels as well, you likely would have had an eye on the i7 processors of that time (for a minor performance benefit at a heavy price tag). So maybe that is where your 7 is coming from.

but is a given that the more expensive the wedding is, the shorter the marriage might be.

So have a dead cheap wedding and the marriage will last forever?

A 13 years old game being ported to 10 years old consoles; not exactly what I would consider world news.

What will people do? Sue him to provide the promised legal funds they need to sue their employers?

Blink has a younger code base that’s easier to build on. Gecko has been around since the early 90s and has some ancient evils lurking deep within.

They both are of very similar age actually. The old Netscape rendering engine originated in the early 90s, but Gecko was a rewrite from scratch that was first used in a browser in 1998.
Blink is based on KHTML which is based on khtmlw, which was written at some point in the mid-90s, but as well saw a complete rewrite in 1999.

Well, you are right that Microsoft never applied this large-scale, nor does it currently run any underwater datacenters. But project Natick anyway ran for over five years, with the first prototype having been deployed in 2015 and the last one recovered in 2020. So apparently not exactly the definitive future of Microsoft datacenters, but much more than a photo op.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick
https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/

I've been programming with lots of dumb people, and I'm particularly dumb myself, but if you really literally spend hours looking for missed semicolons, then you should give up programming no matter if this means more time for date nights or more time to look at the wall.