I genuinely cannot tell if I've reached my old man phase of "no I won't learn new things, I want the old things to keep working like they did" or if we've reached a genuinely new hell of UI designers taking turns on who gets to move an icon randomly in the programs I use on a daily basis.
Feels more and more like the load-bearing programs and websites I use to interface with the world are getting annually redesigned so they can keep their designers employed rather than making things more usable. Discord dropped a truly heinous redesign to their mobile app which essentially made it two apps with one for DMs and one for servers only to roll its key design change back a few weeks ago.
This isn't to say anything about dark patterns, ad placement, or UI customization/ accessibility! It feels like everything is built on sand and every day there's a new mediocre-at-best change to deal with!
Am I old or is this real?????