1. AWS has invested untold man-hours addressing feedback to arrive at their
current solution. The number of people you "hear from" whose sentiment is
unanimously negative is far smaller than AWS's fleet of focus groups.
2. Any UX that point-and-clickifies configuration-as-code is
going to suck on some level, and garner hate from technical people.
Not an answer, but there's something about large companies updating their UI/UX that always makes it worse. Same goes with Jira. If there were any specific reasons to doing these re-styles, I'd love to know too.
1. AWS has invested untold man-hours addressing feedback to arrive at their current solution. The number of people you "hear from" whose sentiment is unanimously negative is far smaller than AWS's fleet of focus groups.
2. Any UX that point-and-clickifies configuration-as-code is going to suck on some level, and garner hate from technical people.