The YouTuber F4mi recently made a great video about why modern user interfaces in games have gotten so bland in recent generations, and went into great detail about the market and management forces which restrict creativity in the UX space.

I chimed in in the comments about more of the technical reasons why flat vector art has become the norm in games. F4mi liked the input, but a whole bunch of randos hopped on to say shit like “IDK I think you’re all just dumb and lazy. Just make better menus”