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Why should it change? It serves its purpose well.

I think he means it's rare to see a project not blindly following new design trends and still doing well.

Is there nothing from UX perspective to improve? Like, absolutely nothing? Is it perfect then?

UX improvements might not be as high in the priority list as other improvements.

Further, as far as I remember, (it’s been a while since I administered a red mine instance) it’s quite possible for an instance owner to actually modify the UI for themselves.

Finally, UX changes come with a significant retraining cost.

With all that considered, it’s quite possible for UX improvements to exist but it also be the right decision to not make those changes.

> design

Maintainers inbox must be exploding with offers to design landing page or do React/Vue app.

For a modern design and current agile practices you may use Taiga.io

Likewise. I used it 10 years ago and it looks the same. Good luck trying to get non-technical people to use it.

Non-tech people can use it with no issues, my whole company uses it. People just need to pay attention to what they are doing, and be organized. At the beginning it can be kinda painfull, but it's all worth it.