Skeuomorphism is important, necessary even. The issue is that people are conflating it with nostalgia. An interface can be considered skeuomorphic if it provid

Skeuomorphism is important, necessary even. The issue is that people are conflating it with nostalgia. An interface can be considered skeuomorphic if it provides affordances that are useful in the physical world - shadows, shapes and animations based on the laws of physics. Such an interface provides the necessary clues to tell a user how to interact with its elements. Nostalgia serves another purpose. It creates an association between a common old interface, and the new one. It provides the clues as to why the user should interact with its elements. I would argue that skeuomorphism is not the easy way out, its the right way. Nostalgia is a much more likely candidate for being the path of least resistance. Because the alternative is education.