[yamtaddle]

> Wonder how much of that is actually a preference of typical consumers, and how much it is just being forced on them.

I can just about guarantee it's mostly the latter.

My elderly dad was shown how to do a couple things on Craigslist, years ago, and has been using it without assistance for years.

Meanwhile he often has to ask for help with the fucking phone app on his phone. And every time Google updates it or he gets a new phone, he has to figure it all out again. For no benefit, just to be able to do the same shit he already could.

Design thrashing and all kinds of slow-downs and animations and "helpful" pop-ups and crap make things harder on everyone, it's just that some of us can push past it. It has a cost, but we become blind to it because we're so used to putting up with it. A few seconds lost there, a couple minutes here, but we've forgotten about it by the end of the day. For those on the edges it's catastrophic to their ability to actually use their devices for anything.