I haven't seen iOS in a while, but it's sad to hear that it is going downhill. It seems to me that there's a bit of an echo chamber in phone UI: it's done, and

I haven't seen iOS in a while, but it's sad to hear that it is going downhill. It seems to me that there's a bit of an echo chamber in phone UI: it's done, and reviewed, by heavy users, who already know how it used to work and take a lot of glitches in stride. Maybe I am trying too hard to explain why everything is two steps away from being good. I recently got an Android 10 phone, from a vendor I had never heard of: Ulefone. I was coming from a Sony Xperia compact running Android 8 - roughly the same hardware, except not rugged. I presume Sony polished Android a little bit more than Ulefone did, but even taking all that into account, Android 10 was full of shockingly bad UI "decisions". First: the Do Not Disturb icon in the pull-down thingy is a but when enabled a appears in the top bar. Second: Pulling down the pull-down thingy once displays a row of 6 icons with no labels. Pulling twice displays 5 columns of icons with labels. It takes extra planning to rearrange the widgets in 5-column mode such that I get the 6 I want in the first row but also a logical grouping in 5 columns. Maybe these are Ulefone-isms, but whenever I trip over them I imagine how hard Steve Jobs would have fired someone who put this stuff in front of him. Just yesterday, I wanted to make a normal voice call to someone I usually contact via WhatsApp. When on their contact page, I couldn't tell which icon would make a WhatsApp call and which would make a PSTN call. The WhatsApp phonecall option appeared with the phone's "phone" icon, and the PSTN option had no icon at all. Both had text saying "voice call". Oh, and don't even get me started about my Android TV. FFS.