No, we're still going to talk past each other. The root of all your UI problems was an increase in complexity, but your experience was degraded, and now you're

No, we're still going to talk past each other. The root of all your UI problems was an increase in complexity, but your experience was degraded, and now you're up a creek. Progress, growth, and complexity do not need to be intertwined, you just believe so the same way "capitalism realism" makes it hard to imagine a future without capitalism. Before your laundry app, your AC app, and your TV being smart, it may not have been "seamless" to do those chores or work with those appliances, but you can't say your experience is seamless now, based on your anecdotes. A hammer is not made better by putting a computer chip in it. Simpler. Is. Better. I wouldn't even say it's bureaucrats who think everything can be understood from spreadsheets. It's Pichai, it's Nadella, it's Altman, saying software will eat the world and data will lead us to a singularity but they're the same crowd trying to tell us Juicero is the future. Your problem is a systems problem. The only way you will solve this systems problem is by changing the purpose of the system when you don't have any control over the inputs, interactions, or motivations of the system, because the tech brahmins that license the software and demand more money for minimal effort hold all the levers, and the AI craze is their final gambit to accrue all the power, irreversibly, forever. That's why it's a predicament.