[JohnFen]

I think that you hit on one of the major things that leads to modern UIs being horrible: products seem to want to have a single UI for all form factors and types of users.

However, every form factor has a unique set on constraints, and a casual user has a different set of needs from a non-casual user. It's simply impossible for one UI to serve all of these things adequately.

So we end up with user interfaces that suck in every use case, just in different ways for different use cases. We need to go back to the days when user interfaces were actually tailored to the use case.