Basically nothing worth noting has changed, just a bit different layout.
These big companies prolly just got nothing to do but they have to give their people some work I guess. This is not something that’s happening at normal companies, it’s just pointless to burn money changing ordinary aesthetics to a bit different ordinary aesthetics.
And it’s not a small change either, the whole app now follows that slightly tweaked design, a lot of time and effort must’ve been put just to provide something that provides absolutely nothing of value.
Unfortunately, they do make little changes. The largely visible UI changes are there to hide those small little changes.
Changes that remove little features that nobody would notice immediately, until someone needs it and realises it’s gone, or someone wants it the first time and is unable to find it, later finding out in older forum posts, that it was actually there in earlier versions and worked perfectly.
These little features are the kinds that provide power to the user while not particularly making a big difference in the companies’ wallets.
If they really had a lot of Dev time and wanted to do something useful, they would have read wishlist reports from users for little additions that would help them. But that does not happen.
I understand this is not a “Dull Men’s” answer, but sometimes things need to be said. And this seemed like the correct point.
100%. Covering up enshittification is often the reason for changing the UI, and sometimes the UI change is indeed the enshittification.