You're not wrong, as it's your personal subjective experience, which can't be wrong.But the fact that it pisses you off implies that you don't understand the reason behind it.We used to have information-dense UIs before because:
devices used to have only large screens with lower resolution.
devices were used primarily be specialists for productivity.
Which means programs had to fit a lot of stuff in very few pixels. Nowadays, vast majority of users are casual, the people of the land, fatfingering their tiny displays. They don't need a ton of buttons and sliders. In fact, a common user would get overwhelmed by all that, even on the desktop. And while a small amount of people would benefit from a denser UI for the same casual apps, it's usually not with the effort designing and implementing them.
But the post is about censorship and controlling the narrative. WhatsApp doesn't do that. If we are talking about corpo apps that do any sort of communication, then the list should be much longer.
In Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Aladdin in several levels in the beginning you have go forward a bit and then return back to the start to find the secret. Needles to say, it also messed me up for life.
Idk C#, could you explain?