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These kinds of changes always feel to me like a new designer coming in and feeling like they need to make their mark - so they mess with an original design that

These kinds of changes always feel to me like a new designer coming in and feeling like they need to make their mark - so they mess with an original design that works fine, just for the sake of some stupid career progression. See: literally all Google products. Endlessly changing interfaces, one worse than another, for literally no reason - other than what I can only imagine is a string of promotions and designers feeling really important for couple months before they move onto the next product they can mess with and add to their portfolio.

rob74 5y ago
It's not just Google sadly - Microsoft had that before them (in every single version of Windows you had to get used to a new UI in the file explorer), and even Mozilla likes to tweak the UI of Firefox to death. Actually Google Chrome is better in this regard. Sure, they add new features too, but those fit in with the rest, and the design changes are gradual (less disruptive than Firefox' "our tabs now look like buttons").