[sshine]

> generating a good UI is not easy

And so many UIs stink, so auto-generating them might, on average, not be worse.

> a good interface conveys so much more semantic information then just it's underlying API

Yes, a good UI contains institutional memory on rendering that particular information in a bigger context than the pure data. I’m not sure how to convey that best.

[sublinear]

In most cases, the deeper into the stack you look the more you'll find out why it sucks. You might be taking for granted how hard it is to implement some features.

Just because you can superficially design a better UI doesn't mean it would work as intended. It's amazing really how much can go on behind the scenes just for a seemingly trivial button that looks like shit.