The Ribbon’s terrible because there’s no regularity in its structure. The eye can’t scan quickly: sometimes controls go horizontally, then they go vertically, t

The Ribbon’s terrible because there’s no regularity in its structure. The eye can’t scan quickly: sometimes controls go horizontally, then they go vertically, then they run horizontally again. Old-school Apple menubar; yeah, that’s not exactly cutting-edge UX any more. Scrubbing through fixed hierarchical menus spatially disconnected from the data they operate on is crude and pretty tedious. And Apple’s never really made much effort on the (adaptive) contextual menu front; macOS has them, but they’re more like a resentful afterthought. Alas, blue-sky R&D into new, novel, cutting-edge UI/UX hasn’t been a thing at Apple for over a decade. Well, except maybe Siri, but even that was bought off the shelf and they’ve hardly put their backs into making it any more than mediocre. Amazon and Google care more(!).