" there simply is nothing for open source to copy but ux-decline" and that sentence rings like a bell of all the problems.
It’s painful seeing FOSS making some of the same mistakes as corporations
But, I mostly use command-line programs and write my own programs (and sometimes use older DOS programs, even though I have Linux), without emoji and without LLM, and also avoiding Unicode when I can, and without a desktop environment, etc.
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon sure is creepy like that.
I beg to differ. Tiling window managers like ion, ratpoison, dwm, et. al, and the simple and elegant tooling that accompany them are a wonderful example of UI innovation.
UI/UX designers who copy, and iterate on, infantile eye candy have only themselves to blame.