[xtiansimon]

Tempest in a teacup. Don’t roll your own UI? You’d be apoplectic in the age of Macromedia Flash. Failure is.

Let’s talk about the economics which permit bad webapps to continue in use. Illogical UI behaviors to be defended as “working as intended”. Or my favorite, UI redesign trend away from compact data dense UI towards open layouts with gobs of empty space (I guess it’s a touch UI compromise, because of “dashboards”). Or the financial incentives to remake the IP of excellent phone apps which end up looking and behaving worse. I suspect some must be tech debt, some reflect development job pool. But the rest? I blame MBAs

No. I don’t mind roll your own. I mind rolling your own crap and defending the indefensible.