I'm way into my middle age, and I find the author an obnoxious and boring stuck-up who thinks that our collective recovery from the 90s' excess is now a sacred

I'm way into my middle age, and I find the author an obnoxious and boring stuck-up who thinks that our collective recovery from the 90s' excess is now a sacred cow. Meanwhile, the discussed design is just a rather restrained and so-so exemplar of post-Tumblr aesthetics—which by themselves are the first good visual trend in ages. If the author thinks that this is bad, I wish upon him a prolonged experience with approximately-15-year-olds, with some Japanese TV on the side. And if the author is like this at 33, I probably don't want to read his writings ten years from now. Perhaps the author should also learn that just like there's a ‘fashion statement’, so there's a ‘design statement’—though I'm not sure of a proper term for that. P.S. The imagined ‘Filteroff for Gen-Z’ screenshot is barely less sterile than the baseline, and it's almost textbook corporate bells-and-whistles to ‘reach the young audience’. Perhaps the author would want to run the imagined design by Anya again.