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Is it possible that this is intentional?

All of these services have their own means of expression; a unique language in a sense. There might be something lost when they are all distilled into a stack of rectangles. Is it fun anymore when everything becomes a #FA525C saturated list in Bynd?

But then, those services are reducing themselves down to cards and boxes on their own behalf already. So maybe this generalization is inevitable and useful. Why travel to 6 different sites if they all communicate in only subtly different ways.

That said, I always thought it would be an OS that would solve these problems. It seems like the perfect layer of abstraction in which to handle the presentation of actionable information.

For instance, how does a 4x1 list view handle scaling complexity? It seems like that would turn into an endless scroll where nothing is truly emphasized. Complexity simply becomes white noise at that point.

Still, I wish you guys a lot of luck. We need people architecting simple solutions.