My guess is it's more that software was eating the world. Since so much more was being made there was less care being taken to be consistent, implement automati

My guess is it's more that software was eating the world. Since so much more was being made there was less care being taken to be consistent, implement automation workflows, and instead focus on visible features. This was also the era of 'skins' for media players and theming the whole OS was falling out of favor. IIRC OS X had no theming and only an invert option for accessibility; not even dark mode.