Comment by ryandrake

There are so many Chesterson's Fences[1] being destroyed with modern UX design. Everyone just wants to change things for change's sake. Or worse, to simply have another piece of unique artwork for one's portfolio. Whenever I've tried to push back on Yet Another Big UI Design, the reasons for doing it are always so vague: Our current product looks "dated." It's not "fresh." Competitors' products look "sleeker." We're using "outdated" design language. So we overhaul the application, throwing years of know-how and bugfixes away in all the refactoring.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence