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So true... some people seem to appreciate the their "aesthetics", but many 2022 UIs are just much worse than what we used to have with... Windows 3.1, or System 7 on Mac. They had uniform keyboard shortcuts (at least Windows, no idea for Mac which I used only very rarely), uniform window controls, applications that didn't need a 150 MB runtime... the worse, is that this is still possible today, just many people don't even bother to try doing it.



I think there's an entire generation that think that UIs should be bloated and slow and have taken web apps to be the norm. It's very sad.


Time for a new cycle of replacement, we are already seeing storage of data on the computer rather than on someone's server as a feature.




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