I remember a time some 25 years ago when shareware developers, years after Winamp, discovered that you could leave the rectangular UIs behind and make "skins" f

I remember a time some 25 years ago when shareware developers, years after Winamp, discovered that you could leave the rectangular UIs behind and make "skins" for their software. For several years everybody was adding skins for good or for bad reasons. It has become an indicator for me: if a new major version of a software has "Skins!!!" as the first item of the changelog, you could assume real innovation has stopped and you could reasonably expect its downfall in the next couple of months or years at most. In the case of AI it's a bit different for existing software and probably more of a hype train fueled by marketing departments than true lack of ideas. But the readiness to jump on these trains should be alarming, especially when long-existing features are suddenly being replaced by "AI". I hope this will end soon and after sifting through fad ideas we'll be left with few, but really usable products.