Much as I love a good rant like this, I have to wonder if this is just the world moving on. I used to hate it (still do a little) when I toggle a checkbox, the

Much as I love a good rant like this, I have to wonder if this is just the world moving on. I used to hate it (still do a little) when I toggle a checkbox, then go to hit "Save" and realise that the checkbox had immediate effect. Now I observe that this is almost the norm. I guess I need to get over it. I also hate it when people changed the scrollbar behaviour in any way. Then today I realised that one of my micro-frustrations with eclipse is that some UX genius decided to make the scrollbars fade away if there is inactivity. (Inactivity of a few seconds in an IDE is pretty normal - it represents thinking!). But then I reflect that eclipse is a hard core programming tool, used by exactly the kind of people I would have expected to hate on this kind of thing. Instead, it seems that this highly technical audience is OK with this. This article is absolutely on the money, and using rounded checkboxes is deliberately sabotaging one of the few strong mental models that we are able to hold about a UI. But maybe this battle is over, and the UX enshittifiers have won.