flat, minimalist design has been a disaster for the human race
if designers need the AI hypetrain to bring back drop shadows and the basic usability affordances we had for the 30 years before they ruined things, so be it
As much as they were a disaster for computing interfaces what they did to architecture is so much worse and so expensive to fix. So many cities are semi-permanently scarred by outrageous creations of "starchitects".