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As a designer I can say that the truth is that customers expect things to get remade and updated and if you wait too long the stale aesthetic begins driving away new AND existing users who want to try out shiny new things. Nice hallucination though blaming it on designers, the folks with no decision making abilties who are often blocked by PMs and devs.

[CRConrad]

As a useer I can say that the truth is that customers expect things to stay put and keep working, and if you futz around with that just because you think "the aesthetic" is "stale", that sure as fuck begins driving away existing users who don't want to "try out shiny new things" but just want their shit to work. (And whaddoIknow, perhaps also potential new users who also want just that, but have caught wind of your software having unneccesary UI design changes all the time.)

Nice hallucination though, thinking that re-designs for no other purpose than re-designing are and should universally be acknowledged as the bee's knees.

Maybe the world really just doesn't need as many designers as you seem to think it does.