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by danmur 990 days ago
Yep. It takes so little time/money to tidy these pages and people notice when you haven't and it counts against you.
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You could just as easily get the opposite effect: if the login page is polished and snazzy, the user may well have the same expectation of the product itself, and every sharp edge will be that much more visible.

If the login page is simple and generic, the message is way toned down. Similar to the advice of not polishing the front-end too much if the backend barely works because clients will expect that a finished interface means a finished product.