I was ready for flat design to die 10 years ago. It's astonishingly unintuitive, ugly, the opposite of style, and straight up anti-human. There are still abstract icons in some apps and UIs that I can't wrap my head around and I have to just click and hope I'm right. There are things that I cannot figure out whether they're interactive or not unless I just tap randomly. There are so many occasions where I can't find what I'm looking for because some goober decided contrast and color coding is a sin.

Flat design stands against every single principle of proper design. All I can hope is 40 years from now, there isn't some "retvrn to tradition" BS where a new wave of the youth decide we should return to the "cool classic style of the 2000s-2020s". Let me be an old man and die with the software around me looking beautiful.