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My point is that when you focus too much on beauty, you tend to sacrifice some functionality. There are tons of ways to signal that text is editable, but most of them are "ugly" or not elegant. To go to the opposite extreme, you could build a functionally equivalent website that is super basic and has no CSS - literally just a textarea to edit the code, checkboxes for the options, and buttons to generate the image. You get the same output, but it's not as pleasing to look at - but hey, it's highly functional and you know everything you are allowed to do at a glance.

The goal for most people is to strike a balance between form and function. In my opinion, I personally think you should always err on more function than form, but the Apple-esque UI design philosophy tends to favor form over function - you know, getting rid of "ugly" UI elements that traditionally telegraphed functionality.