Windows 8 didn’t have a reason to look like a child drew the UI in paint. I remember well the moment I first booted up the technical preview of Windows 8, being flabbergasted by how bad it looked. I choked it up to being a technical preview, they likely didn’t get around to put decent graphics in, but no, it stayed like that.

Windows 8 also didn’t have a reason to go touch-first (and really touch-only) on the UI for a OS with a non-touch install base of around 99+%. That’s terrible UX.

Any decent UI/UX guy would have been able to tell them that they should make the UI switch between desktop mode and touch mode depending on what hardware was present or which mode the user selected.

As you said, it was “only” an hour of fiddling with the registry to bring it back, so it was mostly there. A decent UI/UX designer would have just added a button or an autoselection feature.

But since they said “screw professionals, let the managers do the design” you got shitty UI/UX that caused a massive flop.

The parallel I was drawing that with Win11 and the help of AI they are doing the same. They fire the experts and have the managers and other non-experts do the job of the experts and it falls apart.

Offtopic:

frameworks intended for fucking websites,

You know who also does that? GNOME. The whole GNOME DE is coded in JavaScript.

What does being technically solid have to do with UX?

True, but it’s one-by-one. A dozen types down is good. Do another dozen, and another dozen and so on.

A partial solution is better than no solution.

Alternative: Ten years later: nobody is alive who could have autoimunity risks because the cancer killed them.

Reminds me of that one time when Microsoft said “We don’t need UI/UX designers, powerpoint is so easy that managers can do UI/UX design themselves”.

That’s how we got Windows 8.

Who needs human review, the AI can do that? Who needs human coding, the AI can do that? Who needs human testing, the AI can do that? Who needs human requirements engineering, the AI can do that.

80% uptime. How did this happen?

This sounds like a horrible way for project management, but you do you :)

I damaged my stock Snapmaker U1 build plate with a print of 2 layers TPU 85A topped with a solid PETG print.

TPU 85A only comes off the build plate because you can bend and peel it off. The PETG on top of it stopped me from doing that. It was a dumb idea.