note: I'm NOT a developer of OBS Studio
And I get frustration of messing up
but yea, OBS Studio is a complex tool that expects its users to understand what is going on their system
Why waste developer time on something a user should be aware of and paying attention to already, like the rest of hardware resource utilization monitoring (otherwise you are doing the equivalent of driving blindfolded)?
1. Designing the software to account for people not paying attention to where they are recording, approximate disk usage based on quality settings, bitrate, etc, free space on that device (which could change for reasons other than OBS Recording itself, like file download or ??). Uh, not really practical to estimate a Record Time left.
2. More importantly, on SSDs, it is a REALLY BAD idea to fill a drive. like stupid bad. granted newer SSDs don't brick like original SSDs used to, but still. you are asking to ruin a SSD if you fill it up. that is a Compute 101 lesson, nothing to do with OBS.
So, I personally, wouldn't want OBS Studio developers to waste any time on trying to come up with a complicated estimating tool for remaining recording time (as a simple estimate could easily be wrong, and stupid people would blame developers if estimate was off) vs important features and bug fixes.
