[abeyer]

I'd say it's a lot more than _just_ nostalgia, though that certainly can play in too... But there are plenty of aspects of this, like snappy interaction latencies and a small pool of simple but consistent UI components that behave the same every time you see them, that I think are objectively better than much of what we see today. There was absolutely something lost in consistency and quality when we resigned ourselves to most UIs starting with a blank HTML DOM and building their own custom UI from scratch.