> I think most ui is borken by design possibly for perpetual income reasons.

I don't know how the incentives really play out anymore. It's definitely self-interest in a lot of places.

I have a new theory that some user interfaces are made to be janky on purpose such that the users are constantly bathed in cortisol and made easier to subjugate with the other dark patterns.

The UI/UX for Azure instantly comes to mind as an example. By the time I've been able to ascertain that my VM is actually running, I have forgotten about the five other things I wanted to verify wrt billing, etc. Eventual consistency for something like this appears to me as an intentionally user-hostile design choice, especially in the case of Microsoft with their vast experience and talent pools.