Nah, it persisted in many places, in some to lesser extents than others. It feels like in the 90s it was more of a "look, we can make UIs so flashy now!" thing,

Nah, it persisted in many places, in some to lesser extents than others. It feels like in the 90s it was more of a "look, we can make UIs so flashy now!" thing, which then morphed into an actual design philosophy. See for example the Apple Newsstand app from iOS 6 [0] or lots of VST plugins from any time period, even up to today [1] [0] https://i.redd.it/9fhcm9ce0ao21.jpg https://i.redd.it/9fhcm9ce0ao21.jpg [1] https://klanghelm.com/assets/img/VUMT/VUMT-2-solo-full.jpg https://klanghelm.com/assets/img/VUMT/VUMT-2-solo-full.jpg