The Rise of Sanityware.

A cursory look at the past and it becomes clear that the original architectural promise was that the software acted on your behalf. It was an "I ask, you give" relationship which has turned into a "I ask, you interpret the meaning, you nudge, you optimize retention, you sprinkle adverts and you incentivize me to interact before giving me something back." (…) Sanityware strips away the hostile architecture of the modern software to reveal the utility buried underneath.

Relevant: Alternative front-ends.