It has been a thing for a long time in consumers software from the big guys. The people working on it don't care about UX or performance.
Now a lot of the small-company software we used to use has been replaced by slow bloated and buggy apps usually running on Electron (Slack et al) so we're seeing it everywhere as opposed to in a couple of bad apps.
Skype.
Windows File Manager.
It has been a thing for a long time in consumers software from the big guys. The people working on it don't care about UX or performance.
Now a lot of the small-company software we used to use has been replaced by slow bloated and buggy apps usually running on Electron (Slack et al) so we're seeing it everywhere as opposed to in a couple of bad apps.