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most recent example of #1 i can think of is youtube removal of the "sort by oldest" on channels
they added it back very recently
That change must've looked incredible to the people approving it
People watching a higher concentration of new videos
-> much more relevant current day ad targeting
-> much more efficient caching since people are viewing a smaller subset of videos
-> probably easier to recommend more videos to the user since there's much more new videos than old videos
Don't forget : having to spend more time looking for an old video by scrolling increase user average session length
Capitalist contradictions and poweruser power laws. A more fucked up combo than you'd think.
That is long but quite worth the read, thank you, some typical brainworms about legislators right at the end but otherwise pretty good.
Point 1 entirely explains the fraud that is UI/UX design. Like I said before, the best UI is the one you're used to. In truth, the vast majority of applications that's released to the public is at least "good enough" UI, but point 1 means UI/UX developers can't just sit on their asses but have to be "impactful," meaning they have to arbitrary change shit every so often so it'll look like they're doing something. But this conflicts with the basic principle of the best UI being the one you're used to, so there's a never ending cycle of users being pissed that shit had to change for no reason, slowly getting acclimated, and being pissed when shit had to change for no reason once again. And don't get me started on UI trends that UI/UX designers arbitrary came up with to justify why the old perfectly serviceable UI is "objectively bad UI design." Look, there's nothing wrong with aesthetic changes like how no one goes around wearing togas anymore because of fashion changes, but because UI/UX designers come from a techbro background, they can't just justify the changes on purely aesthetics ground like some humanities major but have to give some cringey STEMlord rationale for why it's acktually scientifically proven to be poor UI design.
