@jelte @mhoye I worked at SCO starting 1989. They had a huge doc department, and the various SCO Unix products went out with a massive documentation set. It was a big expense. https://archive.org/embed/bitsavers_scoOpenDesOCLanguageGuideJun89_29425535
@stacey_campbell @mhoye I worked for ISC and they had staff whose function was solely to maintain documentation too (i.e. write, improve, help teams write, etc). Seems to be the exception rather than the rule. But TBH I was mostly thinking of how nobody stops using software, or chooses to replace it, when their error messages and documentation are garbage. It's not even a consideration.