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> What I really want is a Windows 2000-esque UI with dense

Engineers like you and I want that. The common end user wants flashy, sleek, stylish (and apparently CandyCrush).

But don't forget that that 2000 UI was flashy, sleek, and stylish with it's fancy pants GDI+ and a mouse pointer with a drop shadow!

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> The common end user wants flashy, sleek, stylish (and apparently CandyCrush).

Do they, though? I get the impression that nobody is actually testing with users. It seems more like UI developers want "flashy, sleek, stylish" and that's what's getting jammed down all our throats.

As a UI designer and developer, I would push the blame further along the stack and say that execs and shareholders want “flashy, sleek, stylish”, in the same way everything has to have AI jammed in now, lest the number start going down or not up quite as fast as hoped.

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