Why a button used to look like a button: in defense of Windows 2000 (movq.de)
A blogger walked through Windows 2000 screenshots with one point: anything you could interact with was visibly raised, framed, or white-backed, and scrollbars never hid to "save space." Flat modern UIs dropped those cues, so you tap around to find what's clickable.
One developer admitted it took him "an embarrassingly long" time to recognize an iOS toggle as a toggle. Others named why consistency died: the desktop user base stopped growing, so nobody funds native UI anymore.
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