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I fully agreee. It's similar to older versions of Visual Studio.

On the other hand, I'm annoyed by the omnipresent File, Edit, View, ... stuff in the menu bar. Even if those functions make no sense for a given application. And then I have to open several brittle layers there to reach a certain function.

I think UI research can do better. And by that I don't mean stashing everything into a hamburger menu.

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Research such as.....

* Looking at the context of what the user is doing and dynamically showing options

* Using those dynamic interactions to surface lesser-known but relevant features that were previously hidden deep in menus along with hundreds of other features

* Adding a search bar for the user to explain what they're doing or find something they know the name of

....oh, wait, you just invented the Ribbon.

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