I’m gonna say it. The only people who shit on “skeuomorphism” or rich design in software are people who didn’t know how to do it or work with it.

The aesthetic with gradients, shadows, highlights, *color*, shading— it all worked well. It’s just not something everyone could do.

*That* is why it disappeared. To make it easier for everyone to make apps that looked “default.”

Not because it's better this way.