> It's rather offensive to assume that a group of UX professionals decided to take on a massive overhaul just for fun.
Not fun, but giving themselves work.
Unfortunately, no UI team ever got rewarded for leaving a good product alone. They're hired to work, so they work.
Anyone old enough has seen the quality of certain products peak and then decline, after the company just couldn't leave well enough alone, and ruined excellence with needless tampering. I've hung on to various applications long after their EOL because the new versions were really worse. History is replete with great websites absolutely ruined by redesigns.
This field needs more of an old traditional craftsman appreciation for excellence.
I used Office 2003 until I was forced to use Windows 10 for work at which point, despite my best efforts, was sufficiently incompatible, that I "upgraded" to Office 2010 which seems, I suppose, the least bad "modern" office version...
I still miss Office 2003, it was so much better than new versions
Not fun, but giving themselves work.
Unfortunately, no UI team ever got rewarded for leaving a good product alone. They're hired to work, so they work.
Anyone old enough has seen the quality of certain products peak and then decline, after the company just couldn't leave well enough alone, and ruined excellence with needless tampering. I've hung on to various applications long after their EOL because the new versions were really worse. History is replete with great websites absolutely ruined by redesigns.
This field needs more of an old traditional craftsman appreciation for excellence.