stop changing GUIs

please leave shit the fuck alone

— https://packmates.org/@noxypaws/115600632953728511

What if every application exposed an API? The application may come with a vendor-provided GUI, but an API empowers you to create the GUI that works for you, not against you. Applications from MEGACORP try to account for most things they think people want to do…this approach is largely hit and miss.

As consumers/users, we only have two options. 1) deal with it or 2) move on. The hidden third option is to be so annoyed by said application that you make your own, and the cycle continues.

I'm a bit of a design snob. If an application is the bees knees and everyone loves it, I won't use it if I think the design is poor. Obviously I make do with what's available but I won't be happy about it. I use MailMate not because it's won design awards, but because it's the least offensive stylistically and it does its job well; show me my emails.