[ozaark]

> Can’t teach this stuff

There is literally a field of science called Human-Computer Interaction that teaches this stuff.

[gindely]

Yes but have you seen software - almost anything that's been developed since the growth of mobile platforms has basically done the exact opposite of what that field of science teaches.

This seems to confirm the op's point.

[ozaark]

That fault lies solely with the designers and developers of those software.

"Yeah but they didn't know what they were doing and didn't want to learn" is a more appropriate take.

You can think of it this way: your neighbor nextdoor made a soapbox car. Does that qualify them to be your mechanic? Probably not.