Well, either you were there in the 90s and had a very different experience than I did, or you weren't there in the 90s and are romanticizing what you have read

Well, either you were there in the 90s and had a very different experience than I did, or you weren't there in the 90s and are romanticizing what you have read about UIs back then. I mean, you can strip out a vast amount of functionality from a modern UI and get back to the simplicity of the 90s, but you'll hardly get anything done.