Hilarious, but you are right. And actually, while we're throwing blame around, Apple gets some credit for this problem as well. The "invention" of "flat design"

Hilarious, but you are right. And actually, while we're throwing blame around, Apple gets some credit for this problem as well. The "invention" of "flat design" that was whole-hog adopted in iOS 7 has left plenty of room for the problems you describe. It becomes less clear what is visual content to consume, what is a control to interact with, and what is actually both. I think all companies decided a while back that a computer interface can be like a magazine page. Except you don't press buttons on a magazine page, so it's not a good strategy a lot of time (in rare cases you see it handled well).