Comment by Pannoniae

Hi! I'm slightly under that so I feel like I'm qualified :)

I wholeheartedly agree, they're quite a regression.... although I don't think this is a popular opinion around here.

When people say "something used to be better" they usually don't mean literally, they mean that for the circumstances, it was better. Of course, more modern systems support more hardware, more features, etc., but if you made those same modern technical improvements on top of an older designs, you'd get much better results.

To me it looks like software design has been massively overtaken by "form over function", everyone just wants a unique "brand" but the actual UX is complete dogshit. Borderless buttons, zero indication what's clickable, no visual delimiters for different areas of programs, no good shortcut / altkey menu support, etc....

This has somehow infected even Linux to such a crazy extent...