@inthehands @tehstu While I don't think strict skeumorphism actually makes UX better, the (Jony Ive?) era at Apple where they ripped the graphical design out and replaced it with minimalist flat color, also ripped out a bunch of context on what was an interactive element and what was UI chrome, to the detriment of usability.
To make the UI usable it needs to do less and demand less state tracking by the user, esp when your brain doesn't have a 14-element working-memory