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Always follow the money.

There is no incentive to care about UX.

Companies (i.e. executives, owners) are customers of cloud providers (not devops/devs) - they don't work in its UI => they don't care about it.

b2b products virtually always have terrible UX for that reason, even in competitive markets (UX is rarely an important competitive advantage)

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I work in front end and this is true. We have decades-old top feature requests, and we were told (by people far above my level) in January to only work on shipping a bunch of hairbrained AI features.

Also that is why frontend engs salaries are often lower, despite the job being generally harder

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