Too many UI designers and not enough real work for them to do? Seems to me there's far too much of that sort of thing going on in the software economy (not jus

Too many UI designers and not enough real work for them to do? Seems to me there's far too much of that sort of thing going on in the software economy (not just UI designers!) -- far too much redeveloping existing wheels (and usually not for the better) and far too little actual advancement of the state of the art, far too little actual innovation.