separate from enshittification due to capitalistic forces (changes made to attempt to please investors, create endless growth, make more money generally), are changes to apps and websites worse
I think you can’t separate these things. This is a large driver of these kinds of changes, but there’s no public information to definitively know which is which. So you see like 10 updates and maybe 8 of them are driven by this but you don’t know which 8. And maybe 7 of the 10 updates make the product noticably worse but it’s hard to know what the overlap is.
I think you might be right. For example, any of the logo changes I described is going to necessarily be related to making the company more attractive to investors by seeming more ‘modern’, and a lot of these changes are probably not simply decided upon by the designers themselves, but are also incentivized and meddled with by higher-ups who want things to look more like another, more popular and profitable app.
I think the point here is relevant as well. A site’s users are usually the people for whom the existing UI works best, and changes are usually aimed at bringing new people to the site.
I think you can’t separate these things. This is a large driver of these kinds of changes, but there’s no public information to definitively know which is which. So you see like 10 updates and maybe 8 of them are driven by this but you don’t know which 8. And maybe 7 of the 10 updates make the product noticably worse but it’s hard to know what the overlap is.
I think you might be right. For example, any of the logo changes I described is going to necessarily be related to making the company more attractive to investors by seeming more ‘modern’, and a lot of these changes are probably not simply decided upon by the designers themselves, but are also incentivized and meddled with by higher-ups who want things to look more like another, more popular and profitable app.
I think the point here is relevant as well. A site’s users are usually the people for whom the existing UI works best, and changes are usually aimed at bringing new people to the site.