I hate the damage that Apple seems to have done in this regard. I also hate it when apps hide features because “they’re for power users and regular users won’t understand them”.
Sure, there’s a difference between UX being so bad that it’s frustrating to use and “we need to simplify things because we don’t want to scare the users”.
Lemmy UI has its problems to solve and features to add, but it’s not bad, even on mobile. I’ve been using it extensively and it does fine all things considered.
Anyways, at this point I believe there’s even a benefit to making a UI a bit ugly and scary, so you end up with a higher quality of users instead of quantity, as cold as it might sound.
Edit: I didn’t mean to just talk about Lemmy. That was just an example and I understand that for a social platform numbers are important. My rant was more general in regards to the dumbing down of UI in all areas.
Edit2: I’m sorry. I didn’t want to come off as elitist. I’m actually concerned about the loss of power user features more than non-tech savvy users having a bad time.
Maybe you can reword your title/description cuz I do get what you’re saying. Many people are like “the fediverse sites/apps are so hard to use”, but I think some of the features are just really new so it’s like awkwardly placed just so they can at least get the feature out. Once I knew how to properly search for magazines on kbin (I think the regular search bar doesn’t search magazines well, you have to hit Magazine tab and then do that search bar), create a thread, set my notification settings (the default is like no notifications, and no showing of NSFW), find what magazines I subscribed to, I started to have lots of fun, and I could see they are building these sites well.