Pointing at popular products with crappy Ux and implying that their popularity vindicates their interfaces is totally specious. Does the author honestly believe

Pointing at popular products with crappy Ux and implying that their popularity vindicates their interfaces is totally specious. Does the author honestly believe that that is how markets work? Those products all have years of growth and hefty network effects backing them up. You can infer exactly nothing about the importance of ux based on the difficulty of unseating them.