[GuiA]

> desktop UIs are still about the same as in 2000, just with more shininess.

That is because the majority of people fundamentally do the same things with computers than they did 20 years ago. Browse the web, edit pictures, videos, put together presentations, document layout, spreadsheets, etc.

Of course now your home videos are in 4K instead of 320p, and webpages are 10MB of JS instead of 10k of text... but these are changes in scale, not in kind.

However, shiny features is what gets people attracted to your platform, so we get shininess (never mind if functionality actually gets lost in the process).

The perfect illustration of this for me is George RR Martin, a professional writer of indisputable success, doing all of his writing work on a 1980s workstation with WordStar 4.