In one of my work experiences, "titles" were used as opposed to (or with a meager) paycheck raises. The most ridiculous aspect was that we had a fair number of group leaders, each with a team of 1 (just themselves).

For some it was effective.

This isn't reflecting the OP case though.

When "quickly" means downloading 242mb of runtime, running it slower than native, on top of the document you want to preview...

It was based on Slic3r, however I urge you to diff the sources to see how much has been rewritten and extended. Plain Slic3r is too far behind both PrusaSlicer and Cura nowdays.

Back before 2004, QNX could have still been relevant as there was still a lot of OS experimentation from the user/developer themsevels. They could have attracted enough people to carve a niche even in the desktop space at that time.

After beos failed, I played/developed with QNX until they pulled the rug. I was on it full time on my main dev machine. I loved it.

When they closed it I got severely burned to the point that I will not touch a any closed development platform. I see from the license they didn't change a bit.

Not that it matters anymore.. they're largely irrelevant today except for whatever existing markets they already have. It would be fooling to choose QNX today: we now have good alternatives, and all of them with open licenses.

Some months ago I wanted to format/print some documents, and given the existing tooling I had I decided to try the html->pdf route. I fully agree is a shitshow. The way things break across pages is hard to fix even when hand-tuning the html itself (not just by working it around with css) to avoid content being cut across margins and pages no matter what. I've found chrome to be "less bad", but still unusable. Column handling is even a bigger joke.

In the end I exported the document to libreoffice, and got something way more usable in a few hours just by editing the styles than whatever I was able to do in days of fiddling with html+browser.

iBooks on apple might get a pass as it doesn't need to paginate, but truth be told it seems that epub/ebooks and ereaders in general are being targeted at novels and romance, where form factor, typesetting and formatting doesn't matter that much.

I have access to ebooks through my local library and there's no way I would use, let alone buy, any technical ebook.

Not to mention, I've seen a steady average decline in the quality of printed media in general over the last ~15 years. A lot less attention is put in the typesetting and layout. Even the print quality itself is lower, which I think is due to the smaller and cheaper print runs being done now also for more popular titles.