While flat design can certainly help cover up incompetence, I don't know if I'd agree with "that's where this all comes from." A lot of it is driven by functio

While flat design can certainly help cover up incompetence, I don't know if I'd agree with "that's where this all comes from." A lot of it is driven by functionality: flat designs generally scale better visually across devices, and generally produce smaller file sizes so downloading images is faster. Agree strongly that good designers are very hard to come by - it takes years of experience combined with some level of innate talent to be a top level designer.