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Re:Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple by tomxor on Monday November 08, 2021 @05:47PM (#29155299)
You may love the way it looks... but no one being honest with themselves loves the way it functions, UI is visually functional, a functionality that happens in your brain, like legibility - flat UI has very poor "legibility" if compared to something like 3d embossed win95 UI where every identification and anticipation is painfully obvious to the point that it's effortless. It's familiarity is also learned in a very short space of time; whereas flat UI continues to elude even advanced users and remains ambiguous with high cognitive load - you might not realise why, but it will feel slow, and uncomfortable for each new front end you encounter.

Designers don't like this fact because that embossed 3d look is considered ugly, but it's intuitively and obviously true.

Re:Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple by SahAssar on Monday November 08, 2021 @06:06PM (#29155520)
I think all of your points are true for badly made UIs, regardless of if they are flat or not. I like flat UIs, partially because they look and behave like digital things instead of trying to resemble something else and partially just because they usually (entirely subjectively) look better. We have a deeper well of inspiration to draw from for non-flat and more experience with them (so it's easier to make them "better") but I don't think anyone can say they are inherently "better".
Re:Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple by GhettoComputers on Monday November 08, 2021 @08:19PM (#29156530)
They’re better for accessibility for anyone less interested in learning the new technological design UIs to have their programs function, people that just want to look at something and get how it works without a manual or googling it. The functionally has never improved because of flat designs, ever.