they also described the UI bingo that disorients users every release as software devs enact the latest fashion trend in UX paradigms.

read: over the last 20 years, UI's have not converged towards anything, but cycled through design vogues in a manner reminiscent of the fashion industry. Keeping up is exhausting if you're not paying attention.

Which is fine until you're selling your interface on the basis it "just works". You don't get to advertise your interface is super intuitive and then defend yourself with "oh you're just not used to it".