I mainly use Chrome, and in their newest M121 release they made not one, but three major UI changes and I hate every single one of them.
For the curious, they are (together with my rant):
1. the new "simplified" bookmark save flow which is more complicated than the old one;
2. loss of the ability to disable system notification (i.e. to use Chrome's built-in one, which I prefer);
3. loss of the ability to disable "copy to highlight" context menu option via a command line argument, which I never use and it just messes up my muscle memory for right click -> copy.*
* Seriously, why is it so tough for software in the CURRENT YEAR to just offer fully customizable context menus? How hard is that? Funnily enough, this used to be a staple feature in nearly all the popular freeware back in the 2000s and 2010s. It feels like the whole UI/UX scene has taken a nosedive lately.
- the people who make the software don't know or don't care about the other way you want it
- it adds a bit more complexity / sometimes code debt to let that thing be customized
- the design might be a specific way that they don't want to change
It's not hard at all, Vivaldi does it. I consider Vivaldi the least worst browser.
Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu (github.com/kando-menu)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39206966
https://github.com/kando-menu/kando
A first glimpse at Kando's Menu Editor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLJ1-z9i3cI
Development Update for Kando's Menu Editor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIF6k9OxQ80
Item labels in Fly-Pie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyl5nMPI1f0
Fly-Pie 10: A new Clipboard Menu, proper touch support & much more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGXtckqhEIk
Fly-Pie 7: GNOME Shell 40+ and a new WYSIWYG Menu Editor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRT3O9-H5Xs
Gnome-Pie
Gnome-Pie 0.4 (12 years ago)
I ended up cleaning my inbox with the Gmail web interface. Despite my gripes, at the end of the day Gmail was just better and more efficient at it. Maybe it's nostalgia, but it legitimately feels like a 15 year old version of Outlook would run circles around Thunderbird's UI.
This is painting with a broad brush, but coming from a background that included design, I've honestly come to resent modern UX designers. There are great ones, but there are also ones who are more interested in the design than the user and who ignore or bend the user data to support their (sometimes wild) opinions.