People are attracted to shiny so companies prioritize making everything shiny as often as possible. The average used had to look for subtle clues to find out whether their machine was windows 95, 98/SE, 2000, ME, or XP with a classic skin.

Now, the average user has to totally relearn every few years how to do less of the things they could do before. There’s an obsession with reinventing the wheel that takes precedence to stability.