Stiletto wrote:
UI upgrades are always fraught with drama. There are those who do not want change or modernization come hell or high water.
100% agree with this. Every time Microsoft or Apple release a new OS it is "more bloated than ever" and "too slow to be useful" and "a royal mess" (and we should all just "stick with what we have, because it works, and grandpa never upgraded anything and was okay walking uphill both ways 3000 miles in an arctic whiteout over jagged terrain with no shoes while fighting a pack of rabid dogs bare-handed with a broken arm and 700 lbs of gear on his back on his way to school every day" 🤣) - and then after a few years all of that crying goes away as people get used to the new buttons and knobs, and then Microsoft or Apple goes ahead and decides they don't have enough drama in their lives and starts the whole process over again. 🤣 Being an end-user is honestly a lot nicer than being on the "receiving end" of that too - I remember all the drama and crying about how Windows XP was a sign of the end of days, how Windows Vista was the herald of the biblical apocalpyse, etc etc. 😵 I'm sure there's equally loud complaining about Windows 8 going and changing things again (I've heard it referenced as an "infection" and "plague" in the recent past).
And note that I'm not condemning folks for disliking change - that's their prerogative. What gets frustrating is when it progresses beyond that. 😵
Personally changes in UI never did a lot for me either way, unless they're counter-intuitive (and this doesn't mean "have a learning curve" - this means "some stupid feature was changed that requires more keypresses, clicks, etc to access my target just so that Bonzi Buddy can dance around or Paperclip can talk to you"). The "load more" kinds of buttons fit into the counter-intuitive category; Microsoft's "ribbons" UI feature is more in the "has a learning curve" category. At least in my opinion (experience?). I've never had a problem with things like PGL or Aero - as long as my computer can run them and they look cool, why not? I also miss PNY's Verto Desktop. 😢