At this point, I get the feeling that "skeuomorphism" is a broad sweeping category label created without enough cohesiveness within the category. Doing so urges

At this point, I get the feeling that "skeuomorphism" is a broad sweeping category label created without enough cohesiveness within the category. Doing so urges discussions to assign properties to "skeuomorphism" (is bad, is good, is the way, etc.) without mention of the context in which a designer chose the approach in a particular case. Such a category label not only results in quick evaluations of the kind "x is skeuomorphic and skeuomorphic is bad design, therefore x is bad design", it also urges analytical errors of the kind "design x isn't working, x is skeuomorphic, x is probably not working because it is skeuomorphic". Enthusiasts may also tend to use "no true Scotsman" kind of arguments to evaluate whether a design is really skeuomorphic. What would serve us better is to catalog designs that are considered skeuomorphic, evaluate each based on whether it works for the user, and then evaluate whether the category label is worth the number of letters in the word or whether its definition needs to be narrowed in order to make it useful in design discussions.