I personally miss the magical era of Wordart, MS Works, Clippy, Desktop Destroying Screensaves, Winamp skins and ICQ

The unbounded creativity and pushing of boundaries of that era has given way to a/b tested, reduced to the boring mean, slick and lifeless software that has removed all the joy, the discovery, the experimentation in favor of maximally enshittified sludge of boring productivity.

The current experimentation phase of AI has tiny sparks of it, until they will be snuffed out again.

“Professional” in this context is boring, average and dystopian really, a sign of the time where our Personal Computer has become an extension of corporate productivity rather than our creative playground.