It's a leadership failure. They obviously have a UI/UX dept. Those people want to be considered productive. Hence, they need to force a major redesign every now and then. Without a Steve Jobs like leader, those things will happen due to fundamental laws of corporate bureaucracy.

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alwillis a day ago | parent [-]

> It's a leadership failure. They obviously have a UI/UX dept. Those people want to be considered productive.

They had a guy who had no UI/UX experience leading the UI/UX team. He left for Meta thank goodness [1].

[1]: “Alan Dye Leaves Apple for Meta, Replaced by Longtime Designer Stephen Lemay” — https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/03/alan-dye-leaves...

	▲	layer8 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Stephen Lemay reportedly was a driving force behind Liquid Glass: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/15/ios-27-macos-27-no-majo...