If your software is built well and maintainable, I fail to see how it requires rearranging the entire UI to add features. Windows has kept the “Start menu and taskbar” paradigm for the last 30 years just fine while getting new features. It works. Billions understand it. It it not necessary to change it. They realized this after they tried to push out the silly Windows 8 “Tablet” style UI. Changing the UI just to change it is definitely just somebody out there trying to justify their paycheck.
How about not fucking around with UI just so some manager can meet the yearly bonus?
Keeping something that’s difficult to maintain and cannot integrate well with new features isn’t how software works.
It is absolutely not about difficulty to maintain or feature issues, it 100% comes down to different ways to funnel you where they want you.
If your software is built well and maintainable, I fail to see how it requires rearranging the entire UI to add features. Windows has kept the “Start menu and taskbar” paradigm for the last 30 years just fine while getting new features. It works. Billions understand it. It it not necessary to change it. They realized this after they tried to push out the silly Windows 8 “Tablet” style UI. Changing the UI just to change it is definitely just somebody out there trying to justify their paycheck.
If your UI/UX elements have that deep ties with your deeper stack your codebase has big issues.
Corporate understander here