I don't care whether it's "flat" or not. I'm fucking sick of "mystery meat" UI. Undistinguished words and graphics that have associated actions -- or don't. Varied by individual designer/developer tastes -- or some committee, I suppose.

I can stumble my way through. Worse is having to support "ordinary" people, e.g. family members. (I'm increasingly done "supporting" people to whom I don't have strong ties. Time for them to instead complain to / boycott the people creating and perpetuating this mess.)

Form follows function, damnit.