as another gen-xer i was similarly bemused by the repeated references to the font as ugly, so it did kind of make sense to think that the issue was the author not having grown up with it quite as ubiquitous
Ubiquity has nothing to do with beauty. It is perfectly possible for an individual with taste to find something they deal with frequently to be ugly. Especially if they find a flaw early on and it never goes away.
as another gen-xer i was similarly bemused by the repeated references to the font as ugly, so it did kind of make sense to think that the issue was the author not having grown up with it quite as ubiquitous
Ubiquity has nothing to do with beauty. It is perfectly possible for an individual with taste to find something they deal with frequently to be ugly. Especially if they find a flaw early on and it never goes away.