> It is disheartening to see how popular that stuff is […]

> Customers won't care about all that. […]

Looks like we’re on a similar page.

I do think people are generally frustrated with how shit everything is nowadays, but have trouble spotting the root cause.

A suspicion of mine (I have no data) is that part of the problem is that most of the folks who could handle complexity and who pay attention to detail (people who could be designing QA tests for devices) have instead been funneled into building and testing complex websites. Or building website building frameworks and then testing the frameworks, the websites themselves rarely seem to actually get tested.

It is also hard to price the cost of all this nonsense, because the main way of paying for it is that companies buy ads on social media sites. The price of those ads has to be factored into the price of their products eventually, but it is all really diffuse.

What can we do? Not buy stuff from companies that engage in all this. I don’t buy much, as a result.