Is there any appetite for the return of "lickable" UIs? I miss the colors, contrast, polish, and shine of [Mac OS 10.3](https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macosx103) in particular. I find it all so beautiful—it was one of the major things that drew me to Mac OS. I also found it easier to use; there was no mystery about what was a button or where the scroll bar was.
Is it just me? Or does it seem like online web portals are more brittle now and days? I've noticed nearly everything, from my local credit union, to my gas utilities company, to my lease web portal, are all written as SPAs. And I see little reason for them. They mostly need to render and input basic information. Seems like engineering overkill. And as a result, I find they are always broken in some fashion. Pages fail to fully load. Back button introduces broken state. All kinds of other wonky behavior. I don't remember sites being as broken as this in the past when they were written as MPAs.
