Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?
To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?
I think they both have good and bad.
Kbin uses the width of my screen, which I like, but it opens images in a new page instead of expanding them, which I don’t like.
I think the new rush of users will prompt the design to have more QoL tweaks.