It's not about "sucks," it's about the difference between being a market leader and someone trying to emulate a market leader with no understanding of why thing

It's not about "sucks," it's about the difference between being a market leader and someone trying to emulate a market leader with no understanding of why things are popular. Touch? Sure, let's do touch, but we won't consider human aspects like the size of on screen elements. Gestures? Sure, let's make things swipe and tap and zoom. Why? Why not? The other people do it. Animations? Sure, they are pretty. Let's animate some things. They are optional and meaningless anyway, so we can be sparse and nobody will care. They should be happy we added animations anyway! Wooden tables with see through table toppers with t-shirted employees? It's just the natural order of things. We aren't copying anybody.