My favourite scapegoat is the agile dev process.
It takes away freedom and agency for devs which makes small things also suck where mainly complex things needing multiple programmers did without agile.
Since agile is so process heavy.
I imagine there are no dev owner of calc.exe anymore at MS.
They ruined paint.exe too btw.
I think visual design peaked a few years ago and now we are deliberately overcomplicating every piece of UI for no apparent reason.