[SteveRay]

As OS upgrades and new third-party programs for the Mac come out, trying to keep up with which of the latter continue to be useful and which have been superceded by the OS upgrades or by other competing products becomes increasingly difficult and time-consuming.

Running typical 'searches' not only does little to clarify this, it often muddies the waters even more, because search hits don't usually make that kind of distinction, they just throw everything at you.

And developers don’t often notify their userbase that the software product they've developed has been outmoded, or that someone else’s newer program does the job better.

Does MacWorld maintain a database of such third-party software (‘utility’ software in particular) that indexes those programs, especially the ones at one time considered ‘must haves,’ that have been rendered obsolete either by OS upgrades or other more recent software products?

If not, might this be considered?