I think it’s actually that designers as a group feel like they should not have to understand the product they are designing. This is why the modern uis are so minimal and lacking in features for people who actually use the product in a way that is deeper than trivial.
Imagine a current era designer trying to design Photoshop without just copying an existing system. It would be useless.
A rare exception but also an exception in many, many ways, and a sort of hilarious situation that the UX people who use it almost exclusively produce terrible, dumbed down interfaces.
Imagine a current era designer trying to design Photoshop without just copying an existing system. It would be useless.