Late ’00s/early ’10s UI design was so much better than the boring bland designs of today.

This is more than just opinion too. Back then, software and OSes were created based on actual long-established design principles and were tested pretty extensively with real users in near-real-world scenarios.

None of that happens anymore. It’s all fake telemetry, MBA/designer vibes and feelings. Nothing is tested. Well-known and well-established design practices are tossed out the window as “outmoded.” Absurd movements like flat design where what is clickable is concealed have overtaken all, leading to unusable interfaces where the most important actions are hidden all because it looks better to some MBA who sees it for seven seconds on a PowerPoint slide while gronked out on ketamine.

And the hamburger menu is a design travesty.

Design from when the user was centered — rather than advertisers, MBAs and designers — was thus far superior.