> I saw a presentation by one of the lead designers around the time that it was introduced and he certainly made a good case for how the older interface had acc

> I saw a presentation by one of the lead designers around the time that it was introduced and he certainly made a good case for how the older interface had accumulated way too much cruft. I have also seen well-intentioned arguments for why Clippy was a good idea … but he wasn't. To this day I miss the Word 5.1 on Macintosh System 7. That was more-or-less the Platonic ideal of a word processor; it's been all downhill since.