I'm certainly not going to defend minimalism-to-the-extreme design that gave us the ribbon in macbooks, removed the stalk/buttons in cars, or other movements th

I'm certainly not going to defend minimalism-to-the-extreme design that gave us the ribbon in macbooks, removed the stalk/buttons in cars, or other movements that pretend that palpable controls using one of our fundamental senses (touch) are superfluous. They're from the same "material design" hipster insanity that removed shadowing and numerous other visual cues from UI design that we still suffer today.