Comment by pmdr
8 days ago
I see a vast majority of comments here agreeing that UIs were significantly better and faster twenty years ago or more. Assuming HN is representative for the software community, how is it that slow, inferior and dumbed-down interfaces have prevailed in the end? And this hasn't been happening just to popular consumer products.
The answer is, HN is not representative.
There will be a much, much higher prevalence of computer enthusiasts on this board, not just people looking for a paycheck
That makes sense.
Webification and phones.
You make more money selling software for phones and it is cheaper to use one stack to build all so you build things for the web first.