I've thought of something similar, maybe call it "techbro poverty" It's sort of like chesterton's fence + branding + fashion + stupid optimization giving us dy

I've thought of something similar, maybe call it "techbro poverty" It's sort of like chesterton's fence + branding + fashion + stupid optimization giving us dystopian product design that any normal engineer understands is stupid. There are lots of examples of this: - remote controls with terrible play pause skip buttons, but big oversized dedicated buttons for some product they want you to use. - cars with no dashboard, no dedicated buttons, no turn signal stalks and everything on the touchscreen - laptops with no ports and terrible flat, unsculpted keyboards. - phones with no dedicated buttons, or buttons you can only dedicate to payment systems I'm sure there are tons more of these.