Re:Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplifica...
by tailspin2019 on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:55AM
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I agree, especially if you compare it to Apple's approach of small, steady, iterative tweaks to the UI.
You can still keep the OS looking fresh and up-to-date without completely reengineering the UI with every OS generation.
Especially as this "complete reengineering" was so so so much worse each time, with additional "new" layers of (incomplete) UI being added on top of legacy UI that would inexplicably still be there. Simply the worst of all worlds.
I'm a big fan of the old Windows 2000 era UI (which partly, amazingly, still exists today), but I have no desire for it to stay around if they can just come up with something fully cohesive and all-encompassing to *fully* replace it with.
You can still keep the OS looking fresh and up-to-date without completely reengineering the UI with every OS generation.
Especially as this "complete reengineering" was so so so much worse each time, with additional "new" layers of (incomplete) UI being added on top of legacy UI that would inexplicably still be there. Simply the worst of all worlds.
I'm a big fan of the old Windows 2000 era UI (which partly, amazingly, still exists today), but I have no desire for it to stay around if they can just come up with something fully cohesive and all-encompassing to *fully* replace it with.