[whstl]

Agree. The constant UI reinvention of lately is super strange to me. Companies want to save money but most developer time in simple apps is spent on it.

I remember 20-25 years ago mostly using Windows widgets to make Enterprise apps. It was fast to make, fast to run, and users back then knew how to use. Didn't look the best, but at least was consistent.

The next 5 years we sort of tried to do our best, but most things were still sort of standard-ish.

Then for about 5 years or things like Bootstrap, Material, etc, dominated. It was nothing special, but at least consistent between apps.

But in the last 10 years pretty much every company I worked on had a custom UI built ENTIRELY from scratch by a designer and a small army of developers to implement it. It looks "the same but different" in an uncanny valley way.

I honestly feel like this is the worst possible use of frontend developers, period. Not only from a financial perspective but also from an end result.

But hey jobs are generated so what do I know...

[skydhash]

If most software were following DDD, UI should be a generic domain. But they bind themselves to Electron and bring the whole kitchen with them. And then a note app bring a whole audio and video ecosystem among others.

Before software only needs to be useful. Now the C Suite thinks it needs to be engaging and isolating like a casino.