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>zero faith in Amazon's ability to deliver a compelling user interface for anything remotely casual.

Hah, took the words out of my mouth. Prime video is the first example that comes to mind.

Hell their main site is a mix of various styles of ui changes from over the years. It's really inconsistent and sometimes confusing. Example being search filters. You can check the prime button but changing another filter may remove it.

Its always been something I've thought about briefly before going about my day, never really in any depth.

What do you think the reason is? My thought is, not many people complain loudly so why invest the resources in an overhaul. If it ain't _totally_ broke why rock the boat kinda thing.

That or the engineers build the frontend ;-)

I think it migh be the result of too much a|b testing. Everything hung feels ultra optimized for whatever metric they're going for that week.

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