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God Photoshop is a mess.
Software platforms that get so horribly bloated over so many years that people can't see how horrible they've become.
Weird combination of frog boiling and Stockholm syndrome.
This probably explains the Fermi Paradox. Once you invent computers you get so hung up on stupid overcomplication that you lose all interest in building out into the physical universe.
I'm one of those ghastly generalists who only uses particular pieces of software occasionally, rather than every day. This lack of easy familiarity really brings home how terrible almost everything is.
UX designers should apply the Kondo question: 'does [using] this spark joy?'
I started fooling about with Pandas and Numpy recently, and after years of sweating over Excel it was truly joyful.
Bearing in mind, Excel is amazing. But trivial stuff like 'make a chart that looks like this' is horribly difficult.
This is where 'learn to code' comes into play. We've had a generation acclimatised to using computers using GUIs, and this means that we're losing out on a lot of makes computers actually worthwhile.
There was a genuinely Important Thread from a while ago making the point that 80s-90s curses-style stock control systems are far superior to whatever their modern ground-built equivalents would be.
(The fact I can't immediately and trivially find this thread and link to it is a testament to what I'm talking about)
