Kek Kerel on Nostr: #[0]

quoting nevent1q…9avr

You wonder why they keep removing useful things? It's due to the inhuman, mechanical "metrics" based UX design, part of the tracking and spying is looking at which buttons users tend to press the most. So if you have an obscure but important setting like this, maybe 0.3% of the users ever press this button, and maybe once or twice. So it comes up in their analysis as something superfluous and when they go to add a new feature their mechanical policy says they have to remove something old, so they see this button and other very low usage buttons and they remove them to make way for the new feature. They never even think about what the button is for. Also the reason they added the new feature was because their "velocity" policy says they have to add x amount of new features each year. It's make-busy work, doing things for the sake of doing them.

This is why Youtube keeps changing and removing things people like, because the average viewer on a phone only presses "play", this is why the new windows control panel cannot do even 40% of what the old control panel could do, etc. etc.
They've cut logic and reason out of the design process, literally.