There's a difference between "simplicity" and "simplicity at the user's expense." Outside of HN, major trends in design include: Making all your phone's icons l

There's a difference between "simplicity" and "simplicity at the user's expense." Outside of HN, major trends in design include: Making all your phone's icons look the same, making it harder to quickly find what you're looking for. Low-contrast gray text on white backgrounds, which are nightmarish if your eyesight isn't good. We can keep going here. More to the point, HN achieves simplity without going to an extreme where the user experience is negatively affected.