I’ve noticed it with people a lot younger than me also finding the stuff to be obnoxious and stupid.
Mainly it’s because the majority of modern tech is built to do shit for finance and ads.
Grubhub was cool at first, mainly because a UI to to look at menus of restaurants and order without having to do everything verbally, the order could still be messed up BUT at least we all agree that this is what the buyer wanted.
Gmail having a search UI was a big deal at the time.
Tumblr giving you an editor and a combined UI for uploading / posting and editing the page was a huge deal.
I’ve noticed it with people a lot younger than me also finding the stuff to be obnoxious and stupid.
Mainly it’s because the majority of modern tech is built to do shit for finance and ads.
Grubhub was cool at first, mainly because a UI to to look at menus of restaurants and order without having to do everything verbally, the order could still be messed up BUT at least we all agree that this is what the buyer wanted.
Gmail having a search UI was a big deal at the time.
Tumblr giving you an editor and a combined UI for uploading / posting and editing the page was a huge deal.