also ironic - an article lamenting the way things are so flat and lacking physicality yet it’s jam packed with AI generated art
Hence the whole point of the article. We've reduced our UIs down to minimal friction ("easy to read") where, like creating a drawing, a higher friction ("harder") interface could well be more rewarding.
I think it ends up proving the opposite. I did not feel like scrolling through all this pointless flair was in any sense rewarding. Quite the opposite, it's distracting enough to be annoying, so if anything, it feels like a counterpoint to the message in the text.
It was a pleasant break from the Mark 1, Modification 0 top-to-bottom web page, yes.