or when you go to chrome's history and it just lists the title of the page followed by simply the domain. It's like "some designer thought the pages feng shui wasn't in alignment and now the useful stuff is gone."

I have to assume they just hire artists that have never used a computer to make UX decisions and act as product dictators.

It's either that or empiricism by idiots: "We made the feature take 5x more time to use and got a 5x increase in engagement! Won't my boss be proud!?"