Rounded corners and pill-shaped buttons really infest UI everywhere, and I never understood what kind of ergonomics they are supposed to improve.

And fighting them is increasingly difficult, but at least somewhat possible:

- VSC luckily still supports

    workbench.experimental.modernUI

we can turn off; and if they will be marginally clever, it will remain there indefinitely.

On the web, we can use userstyles sharpening most dulled corners [1]. And if you happen to have seen upcoming Firefox skin, it is also pill addict's fewer dream. We can use userChrome.css, but web components are making it very cumbersome and fragile, basically constantly adding new custom properties, being glad they are really used [2]. But I digress. I really look forward for this pill mania to wear off, like wet floors, glitters, and similar fads.

[1] https://userstyles.world/style/8283/

[2] https://gist.github.com/myfonj/f5415dd0580663a82ea18407ef2ee...

Lots of unnecessary whitespace, tabs changing colour to be confusing about which is selected…

They hired a new design lead who wants to make their mark, didn't they.

A gluttonous heaping dollop of border radius has been added to my favorite code editor. It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes. The designers have been plaguing the web with this exponentially. It was only a matter of time before it spread to desktop electron apps. That time has come now, I have reported this visual bug to VScode.

Who else remembers when devs were complaining about flat design and the loss of corner radii, borders, and gradients? Everything old is new again.

P.S. Code is super late to the game on this UI trend. See Slack redesign circa 2023 https://slack.com/blog/productivity/a-redesigned-slack-built...

P.P.S. I can’t believe I forgot jetbrains did it first.

I came for screenshots and there are none, nor are there in the linked issue this is marked a duplicate of.