[vladms]

Considering how much money are poured into AI development would not say that "everything is about minimizing expense". But it is true that user interfaces are not something that will sell your application to the masses.

But to be honest, trying to sell any kind of "advanced software tools" (like compilers or other very specialized tools that provide small gains compared to existing free ones) for "power users" is extremely hard. Was involved in something similar in ~2010 and many power user think they don't need it or they can do it better themselves but anyhow does not want to pay for a complex tool.

Probably the web interfaces is exactly a manifestation of that, many users trying to implement things themselves because they know better. But I prefer writing interfaces with React than with Win32 so I think there is progress.