My understanding is that part of the interview loop (for software engineers without significant UX experience) is to ask what can be improved about the UX. The

My understanding is that part of the interview loop (for software engineers without significant UX experience) is to ask what can be improved about the UX. The correct answer (in the loop, from the perspective of the interviewers, according to my understanding) is “nothing; it’s as good as it could possibly be”. This doesn’t exactly agree with what you’re saying because there are potentially better alternatives outside of Jeff’s ideal (I’m not too worried about it as both of our positions are reasonable).