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For all we've gained... the social media site I have the healthiest relationship with is basically just text and would run fine on a machine from 1998. Sure, some parts of modernity are nice (I don't miss having to call taxi companies) but I could do without a lot of it.

The maturity brought upon us homogenized experience. 90's user interfaces were something else, man.

> The maturity brought upon us homogenized experience.

This is "hunter gatherer experience": click an element, see if it does something (opens a link, displays a menu), see if it brings any value. Such a waste of human life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation

The computing world, and not only it but also large parts of the real world, has abandoned creativity and turned into homogeneous corporatized slop.

Just look at what happened to McDonalds.