[detaro]

If something else looks fine as well and works better, why not use that?

For first-time or occasional users things like that can get needlessly annoying, and if "it's just a tiny detail" is applied to everything, it quickly leads to "death by a thousand paper-cuts".

So yes, most people probably don't care about it, but IMHO good UX design should care about tiny details and look into small effects.

[gonehome]

My original comment was probably too abrasive - it wasn't so much that it was just a tiny detail or that tiny details don't matter (they obviously do). I guess I just find UX more subjective - seems easy to argue that any decision is bad or good based on whatever criteria you're choosing to argue about.