When I complain about modern UI/UX being worse, those (usually those who profit from the new paradigm) claim it’s just nostalgia or that I “hate change.”

But it’s not nostalgia at all and I don’t hate change. I embrace positive change and did so in UI for many years. What I hate is things being fucking broken. Why is it broken? becomes the natural question to ask.

In short, it’s broken because a few large companies have endeavored to transition every bit of technology into a consumption-only locked-down device. This is their goal, and their approach has been to remove anything useful, claim it’s “for the user’s own good” and then iterate that over time until only consumption-friendly features remain.

And, of course, to unleash loads of shill propaganda about bad users who “just hate change,” who object to UIs being stripped of all useful and non-consumption features because they need more than the ability to click on Facebook and drool into their Big Gulp.

And it’s worked a treat! Because, alas, propaganda works very well indeed. As all possibility of doing anything useful is removed (with Mozilla’s Firefox being a prime example of this trend), anyone who objects is just causing problems, and must be ejected from the discourse as “opposing progress.”

Well, fuck you and your progress. I need to get some goddamn work done.