The difference between the two right now in terms of usability is not incremental, but visible and apparent. That's what's real. The monero GUI mockup is sexy. Looks like a lot of thought went into it. Good job there. But For now that's what it is, a mockup. BBR gui is proven here today. The user experience is hardly the opposite, it just works. There's this constant narrative in any monero supporters posts that they are doing things properly, other coins have done a botch job.
It's not just a mockup - we pushed out binaries of the interface a week ago. It is not wired up, and there is still a lot of work to be done, but the interface is way past mockup stage.
why this is continually used as a subtle attack against competing coins. The notion that you aren't in a rush to make things easy for the 3rd group and instead focusing on doing business in the back, so BBR has screwed up because it's already managed to make things perfectly easy for the 3rd group is something that keeps being repeated. Used as a con when it's not one. . We are getting the supporters parroting that same thing ad infinitum, implying they are the only group which puts any though into anything.
I never said it was a screw-up, I was just stating why we do not have a similar GUI as part of the Monero core. Incidentally,
Jojatekok's Windows Monero client is one-click to run, it auto-updates itself, and is available in a bunch of languages (16 if memory serves). Literally its only downside is that it is Windows only, but that appears to be the majority of the target audience served by the BBR GUI, no? So I'd throw it straight back at you - why are you using this as a not-subtle-at-all attack against Monero, when an equivalent already exists for Monero? Come, now, this is a silly argument to be having.
It's great monero is doing things methodologically, (no sarcasm), the whole GUI thing isn't that important really. It's a small pool of participants right now, and it is true you could take a little time to learn. It's more the reaction to it. If XMR had GUI and BBR didn't, my god, you would not hear the end of it. When the opposite is true, complete nonchalence. No one seems to cares what other coins are adding because XMR can do it in the future so it wins by default is what seems to be happening now
Now let me ask: what is up with all this "BBR vs. XMR" stuff?
I'm going to reiterate what I've said on more than one occasion: we
like crypto_zoidberg very much. We have shared code across the fence on more than one occasion. There are changes he's implemented that we do not agree are a good idea, and
it's ok for us not to agree with everything another person does. It would be a particularly boring world if we all just agreed with each other all the time:)
If someone asks my honest opinion about an aspect of BBR of course I will answer honestly, in a positive or a negative sense, just as I
have been openly honest about Monero's shortcomings. Recently, however, there's been a great deal of baiting that has gone on, and I've been suckered into responding to fallacies and nonsense in a way that could be viewed as me having a negative opinion of crypto_zoidberg, when that is not the case. I wish him all and his cryptocurrency all the best, and I don't see any reason why both can't coexist without the need for constant comparison by supporters on both sides.