💯 agree.

The way I think about it is: if you're not making tradeoffs, you're not doing design.

But you see a lot of software like this — they just accrete features in a haphazard way. It's most noticeable in the UI, but it happens with libraries & frameworks too. twitter.com/FreyaHolmer/st…

Quite often I run across new tools (apps or libraries) and the main thing I notice is that it's "actually designed".

"It's like X…but *actually designed*."

(I may have picked this up from @warianoguerra)