A lot of the user interfaces we use today are "better" than what we had in the old days. The old generic windows and buttons and whatnot don't work on a finger

A lot of the user interfaces we use today are "better" than what we had in the old days. The old generic windows and buttons and whatnot don't work on a finger touch input. Switching apps via gestures, visual cues by animation, use of space, effects to bring things in and out of focus, a lot of things have been refined and evolved over the years. Yes, things are not perfect but claiming that designers are making everything difficult while programmers would have just made everything better albeit not as pretty looking is really not a fair assessment. I mean, preference and general nostalgia, I get it, but it's a bit much. Getting raw access to your data also wasn't a breeze in the past with program often having their own binary formats and not exposing any programmatic interface at all to get data in or out. Not sure how this relates to the cloud.