[amarant]

In my experience, it's never the engineers nor the designers who makes those decisions. Stuff like that always comes from higher up the ladder, some middle management figure who thinks he is smarter than he is, mandates such abominations and refuses to hear reason from the engineers and the designers.

The engineers and designers then proceed to do as they're told because they like that nice fat paycheck at the end of the month more than they like the service they're building. Which is fair enough.

[IcyWindows]

I don't know. Someone above mentioned that don't like their browser's date picker. Maybe they are a "middle management figure", but probably not.

[throawayonthe]

the date picker is the one i really disagree with because it really is terrible on most browsers

[setr]

Not liking it and having the conceit to replace it (and more importantly, shove your replacement into prod) are entirely different actions. The first is always legal. The second is more often questionable than not

[m0llusk]

Or nowadays managers can use an LLM to take control, sieze the moment, and make the buy button bigger.

[cousin_it]

Portfolio websites of designers, where nobody's the higher authority but themselves, are full of scrolljacking and other fuckery.

[LtWorf]

In my experience it's always the designers.