[cosmotic]

I'd argue the what we have now is worse than 95/OS9. Affordances, feedback, and system status are gone, UI elements are gone or hidden until hover, error recoverability is an after thought, and consistency is nonexistent. Everything has taken second fiddle to visual aesthetic.

[DoingIsLearning]

> UI elements are gone or hidden until hover

Discoverability. It seems increasingly hard in modern UI to know what is something I can interact with and what is just a text label.

[hulitu]

Also error management is gone. We are back at "General failure reading drive A: " error messages. But the more common error handling is to crash or to spit a cryptic error message.