Let's also go bad to CLI only interfaces, since your points apply to operating systems too. While I agree modern design trends often go for beauty before utili

Let's also go bad to CLI only interfaces, since your points apply to operating systems too. While I agree modern design trends often go for beauty before utility, and more often than not distracts from the actual content, it is no reason to go back to a more "pure" time. We just need to set new trends that will put content back in the foreground and use other design elements to augment more integral parts. No need to deal in absolutes here.