What I really want for Google Docs isn't "Here are some suggested edits" or "Have you considered the git + patches model, but for English?", but rather "Here's an alternative vision of this part of the piece; let's talk about it and align on a path forward."
I think the edit-a-sentence-at-a-time model tempts users into doing something that might be quite value-destructive, simply because (for Google) it is easier to imagine as a UX and (for users) it leaves an obvious virtual paper trail of Real Work Happening Here, Can You Feel It.
Stepping back to a broader point:
Just like we don't naturally have a great frame of reference for how much good software can do, I think we don't appreciate how many thousands of years of human life are frittered away due to software which incentivizes doing the wrong thing.
Just like we don't naturally have a great frame of reference for how much good software can do, I think we don't appreciate how many thousands of years of human life are frittered away due to software which incentivizes doing the wrong thing.
