Fair observation. I spent ~10 years as a mobile software PM in China (Xiaomi),… · @yinpengxuan · TwKit

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Fair observation. I spent ~10 years as a mobile software PM in China (Xiaomi), mostly shipping for overseas markets. The roughness isn't a talent problem — it's a priority problem, at least in the projects I've lived through. Chinese apps grew up serving a billion users on cheap phones with flaky networks. The game was won on speed, feature density, and surviving thousands of Android variants — not pixel-perfect flows. WeChat isn't one app, it's fifty apps wearing a trench coat; Alipay the same. When the roadmap is packed with new services, polish is what gets cut first. Hardware and models are bounded problems with clear finish lines. Software UX at that scale is messier — taste has to fight for a seat at the table, and for a long time that seat went to growth. It's changing, slowly. The newer Chinese consumer apps that have to win overseas users — users who can actually leave — are finally treating flow as a feature. One honest question though: are you looking at the Chinese UI or the English one? I've shipped multi-language versions of Chinese apps, and the English copy often lags behind. If you're on the English UI, some of the "roughness" might be translation, not design.

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