Your point is very valid except aesthetic redesign shouldn't impose performance penalties. Or if they do, they should ideally be opt in settings. Other than tha

Your point is very valid except aesthetic redesign shouldn't impose performance penalties. Or if they do, they should ideally be opt in settings. Other than that, yes, computers can also be used as a creative space to explore art & aesthetics. They don't have to be only focused on brutalist functionality. But UI updates in many, even most, cases, somehow manage to bloat the app or impose tiny inefficiencies, which over several such updates, tend to add up. But this is a secondary concern to the primary one with periodic UI redesign, which is to make the app more and more unintuitive to use, even though the very reason for these redesigns is the opposite end. This I feel happens when UI refreshes are done for their own sake rather than genuine need, and also when adhering too religiously to the prevailing industry UI fashion trends, and no real user testing/feedback.