I am fairly bothered about that but the one that really gets to me is the inconsistency of user interfaces across applications.

This precisely coincides with the web developers being allowed to wrap stuff into "apps" in Electron and the like.

It's been that way forever, did you forget about the Borland buttons? Colorful icons on them, much bigger, different shading.

	▲	bombcar 34 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There was a short period of time around Windows 95-XP where application developers really wanted to try to use the "latest and greatest" because if they didn't they really stood out as being "last year's tech". Then XP kind of broke that as so many started not bothering and then it all went sideways.
	▲	layer8 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		They had a different look, but usage and UI conventions including keyboard navigation worked basically the same. Since the mixing of mobile and desktop with web technology, it’s the Wild West.
	▲	gmueckl 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But they were not too far removed from how the standard Windows buttons looked. Office had its own look in a lot of ways back then, e.g. with the extra handles on the toolbars. Now, if I take a couple of current applications, the differences are much bigger: from the top of my head, Explorer, Settings, Edge, Office, Steam, Spotify all have much more unique UIs.