Hear hear. That was has been thoroughly lost.

> People are bad with computers because "Designers" have been objectively value negative for decades. Instead of paying attention to the reams of scientific data that tells you exactly how to make a UI better, they smoke crack and make things transparent.

I've run into a lot of "UI designers" that were just graphic designers that lucked out getting a job in a software company. They design and compose the UI for static screenshots like they would do a 2D graphic composition. Far too often they'd hand off Photoshop PSDs they would expect a developer to turn into an actual UI. They don't follow a HIG document or respond to any pushback with "you have to know when to break the rules" (they do not know when to break the rules). A good UI designer is worth their weight in gold. In my experience most are worth their weight in very low grade playground sand.