I did a lot of consulting with the design team in my last role. My company was creating a "builder" app, where you can use a GUI to create and deploy custom cli

I did a lot of consulting with the design team in my last role. My company was creating a "builder" app, where you can use a GUI to create and deploy custom clinical research mobile and web apps. The way I was finally able to get through to the design team was by showing them an image of a Tesla interior and saying "this is what you guys have built", and then I showed them an image of a well-organized woodshop with hundreds of tools on the walls and saying "this is what the people using our software to build custom apps actually need". Maybe non-technical end users really do like having all features hidden beneath unlabelled flat buttons, I don't know. But it doesn't work for people using software GUIs to do technical work. I'd go back to 90s-00s style clunky menus in an instant if I could. Just the ability to see what's clickable and what isn't is worth the downgrade in appearance.