I miss tooltips the most because I can no longer predict what icons do on sight. Not only are tooltips missing, developers who use these unintuitive icons also remove labels. Thus, users must read articles or watch tutorial videos to discover info a 2 second tooltip would have provided.
The other trend that's pissing me off is - actions are increasingly irreversible. I loved computers because it seemed to have reset or undo buttons everywhere! Most actions / mistakes were fixable in one click. Even Windows Recovery which failed to work correctly most of the time - still provided mental safety and I explored with ease.
Now, things seem to happen for no reason. Flick the mouse the wrong way and something will change, and render a software unusable with no way to fix it unless the application's uninstalled - some changes even survive reinstalls and the only way to fix is an OS change.
The other trend that's pissing me off is - actions are increasingly irreversible. I loved computers because it seemed to have reset or undo buttons everywhere! Most actions / mistakes were fixable in one click. Even Windows Recovery which failed to work correctly most of the time - still provided mental safety and I explored with ease.
Now, things seem to happen for no reason. Flick the mouse the wrong way and something will change, and render a software unusable with no way to fix it unless the application's uninstalled - some changes even survive reinstalls and the only way to fix is an OS change.