Nothing makes sense. It’s been oversimplified to the point where it’s been dumbed down to its core.
There are a lot of idiots out there. It is likely that they are trying to design for them.
I am degoogeled with the exception for YT. Mind to share an example?
Have you tried Newpipe? Lovely YT client for android :)
Every iteration is designed to improve some metric so somebody can get promoted. It doesn’t matter if it ruins the overall experience, somebody’s pushing a metric.
This is true for the dumb UI/UX changes in Windows recently too.
Do you mean Material Design? It’s getting a lot of hate, but for most apps, I actually really like it. On my computer, I would hate it and I don’t like the Gnome’s simplified design for example, but on my phone, I want most of the apps to be simple utilities and Material Design seems to fit that very well.
What do you mean? What happened? Which Google product?
At this point I wonder if they just do this shit to see how many people subscribe to it so they can laugh at our expense.
As a contract software engineer that works with UI/UX designers across multiple industries and technologies, Google’s suggested UI/UX is typically not used.