IMO it is time to seriously realise that most of this "ooh looks cool, surely I/we need that" tech has no place in this world. Whether or not the act itself is wasteful (although it generally is in tech...), the thought process itself indicates a bigger problem with society. Why do we need this thing? Why do we consider being without the thing to be bad? Like seriously, at the scale of issues in society today, who cares if your UI panel is blurred or not?