The issues of IA are not imho intentional, but that does not make them smaller.
It is a crappy piece of software, that is going worse with every update. Which is pretty normal nowadays. Everything is getting complicated.
The real problem is when this **** software is combined with stupid AMs (most of them indeed are). Then there is a combination of non-tracking and AMs who are not able to see the problems and even less they are able to solve the problems.
I believe IA in theory can work ok, but 95% of AMs can not set it up correctly. So it is a piece of junk indeed. And all new gadgets just make it worse.
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