If you force a team of talented people to go into perpetual “maintenance mode” for a product many of them will want to quit (understandably!). At any rate, a n

If you force a team of talented people to go into perpetual “maintenance mode” for a product many of them will want to quit (understandably!). At any rate, a new UI generates interest in an OS the way few other features will, so while it annoys old timers it has a clear marketing function too - see the ridiculous speed at which everything had to get a “dark mode” for their UI a few years ago as another example of this.