You can see on reddit case what happens when you start adding the "beauty" factor instead of staying with the minimal interface. It may be surprising but for many hn looks good and the only thing it could have is the dark mode - which can be bring with userscripts.

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dizhn a day ago | parent [-]

The beauty factor is the facade for their full on enshittification plan. By the way I quite literally get angry when an app spends time with a bolted on dark mode instead of quite literally any basic feature. I see it all the time. The app barely works but the feature they (and a ton of users) are happy about is dark mode or a new theme.

	▲	pndy 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Of course it is and it's not just reddit but literally any piece of software nowadays. It's not just about the way interface is designed but how overall application looks like and with what features keeping you in it comes. Our local Amazon equivalent here got recently a partial mobile app redesign. Application went by gamification path and it got: "challenges", worthless coupons, affiliated links program to pester your friends with. Plus, independent "notifications" in form of a banner for those stubborn users who refused to agree for "personalization". And there's also information about how much you "saved" subscribing to extra delivery service without which it's impossible to get your package on time. All of this pointless shit but for more than 20 - twenty years no user is able to change their account handle.