EDIT: Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.
I deleted my other comment because I realized this is about tech in general and I thought it was websites.
But yeah, hard agree and one of the biggest culprits of shit nobody wanted on their computer was absolutely windows 8. Of course tween/teen me thought it was kinda cool, but hindsight is 20/20 after all.
Can’t really remember that many other examples, but it was at least slightly better than now. I mean, just look at the old interface for Audacity with the faux 3D circular buttons at the top from around 2013-ish compared to the crummy flat and dull ones we have now! We used to be a civilized society!