Why the fuck is everything getting round "corners" everywhere these days?

Most places it's such a waste of space.
Some go farther and it's more stretched circles like rectangles.

Damn it, monitors are rectangular, windows are rectangular, stay with it ffs

Also, it looks fckn ugly

because, for some reason, the common treatment for designers is "hiring them" instead of "locking them up for incompetence"

I don’t disagree, but waste of space is a bad argument.
Designers waste space for a lot of reasons, other than rounded corners.
And packing everything as tightly as possible isn‘t necessarily good design.

Designers also spend too much time and effort on how the UI looks, rather than how it works.
That hurts accessibility and ignores the user‘s customization preferences, which results in bad UX.

It's also like they lost all meaning. Rounded corners SEPARATE. You put them on an item that is logically on top and separate from the enclosing box, which DOESN'T VISUALLY CONNECT TO GRIDLINES. Cells of a grid, full-screen and tiled windows, and especially GODDAMN MOTGERFUCKING TABS are in an intricate relationship with the surrounding and enclosing boxes. The visual representation of this relationship may use rounded corners - although I for one think they're ugly, but the way Chrome uses them on the tab bar is at least informative - but just rounding off corners for the sake of being hip is a total waste of screen space and clickable area.

God, I hate the rounded Firefox tab bar so much

Theory: Windows 11 moved the start menu to the left end of the variable length list at the bottom center of the screen from the nice and logical bottom left corner because they're planning to make the screens rounded too.

@lorentz crt screens were kinda rounded :)

Material UI be like

They say it’s for accessibility. I personally hate these pill formed button shapes , because it gives the application a way too but can’t get away from material due to its impeccable integration with angular.

I don't know, but when people take cybertrucks camping raccoons try to get into the back. The thought is that they think they are garbage containers. So they try to open the lid.

Windows 8 had sharp rectangles everywhere and it also looked like shit

Maybe I'm in the minority but I like a good rounded corner. Yes, macOS is very beautiful

@devRancid most ugly Windows indeed. Not even Windows 3.1 was this ugly. I still can‘t believe that someone saw this and thought that it would look nice.

the comic sans of UX

@Lensflare Very true.

I see the trend of packing things tightly very often in multi-platform games && even in my own project.

'Let's take all of that info && display in on one screen.'

...end result is a lot of very small text that is barely legible.

@lorentz Ditto.

I liked my Firefox w/ the sharp, rectangular tabs more, too.

@D-4got10-01
They wrote it in C# so that makes a lot of sense.

web2.0!