This!
I came here to post something about Slack and their forced update. Click on a notification by accident and BOOM you have a new version with a new layout, even without shutting the software down.
With every update they shuffle stuff around without adding much functionality. I guess the designers need to keep themselves busy or something. I hate forced updates like this
Re:Why Johnny Won't Upgrade
by sumtechguy on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:33AM
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It is not just phone apps that do this. Web apps do this too. My bank has pretty much rearranged all of its GUI. Big giant buttons everywhere. Yet the one thing I go on there to do is at least 10-20 clicks to do now.
Slack recently moved the profile settings from the left of the screen to the right.
It hasn’t been replaced by anything on the left.
Someone just decided to move it, they probably have some pseudo science about “design weight balance” to justify moving it.
Really it’s change for change’s sake.