[falcolas]

> Badly made GUIs are.

So pretty much every browser out there? Without knowing ahead of time from random pilfering through various menus, how can you tell if your browser is up-to-date or not?

How do you find the extensions page? Or is it add-ons? Depends, I guess.

How do I figure out which tab of (potentially) hundreds is consuming CPU and memory?

I won't claim that CLIs are better, but GUIs are definitely not made for discoverability these days.

[Tagbert]

I blame Chrome pissing on the menus for how hidden most functions are. Once they hid the menus, the others fell in line.

[millimeterman]

Counterpoint: the vast, vast majority of users never do any of that. I’m sure Google collects tons of analytics on how people use Chrome and the current design is tailored to fit the needs of the majority. Common functions like tabs, the address bar, and maybe bookmarks are front and center while everything is shoved into menus to declutter the top-level UI.