AI Surface Area Displacing Core Workspace Features Users Rely On
Long-term users of a workspace tool report that capabilities they valued are being progressively replaced by AI features they never asked for. They read the roadmap as addressed to investors rather than to the people doing daily work in the product. The complaint is about substitution rather than addition: the AI arrives at the expense of what already worked.
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