[MilStdJunkie]

Speaking respectfully, does anything look the same as the 2.4 days? That was before the giant UI flush, when they decided, "screw it, make it look like Maya" (I was pretty hostile at first, especially since half my Python scripts stopped working, but I eventually got used to it. I keep an old EXE for the old scripts I really need, but with geo nodes I'm hitting those less and less).

[Intralexical]

The aesthetic changes are mostly just theming, really. For a long time they even kept shipping a 2.4X-style theme IIRC— It looked old enough to prevent my old high school teacher from getting scared, in maybe the late 2.6X days. Looks like there's still a default "XSI" theme that gets pretty close to that. And up until pretty late you could still make the properties panel horizontal instead of vertical with a RMB menu option (which I can't seem to find in the latest versions), though the layout didn't really work too well in that mode.