Good and modern visual design exists explicitly to deliver information to a person in the most accessible way. If you show a Japanese website to someone who grew up in Ireland, they will be overwhelmed. Not catering to different cultures, like the website suggests - only makes it worse.
- Cheap = a lot of spam
Having low cost of equipment and almost unlimited anonymity, makes fighting against spamming or "enshittification" exponentially hard. Just ask anyone who bothered to run their own mail server or open forum board. It's just not feasible for us to be able to have a nice experience without a level of trust.
"Good" modern visual design barely exists at all according to that definition. Most modern web design exists to jam marketing in your eyeballs while drip-feeding information at the minimum rate to keep you from closing the tab, which is basically the opposite of "delivering information in the most accessible way".
Also: The YouTube homepage uses twice the memory of the NicoNico homepage to show fewer thumbnails, and has basically been unchanged for years, while YouTube can barely resist keeping their layouts the same for a single month. Japanese web design has quite a few issues with being stuck in the 2000s but I'll take consistently bad over rolling the A/B testing dice every week to see what page I get.
- Cheap = a pain to read
Good and modern visual design exists explicitly to deliver information to a person in the most accessible way. If you show a Japanese website to someone who grew up in Ireland, they will be overwhelmed. Not catering to different cultures, like the website suggests - only makes it worse.
- Cheap = a lot of spam
Having low cost of equipment and almost unlimited anonymity, makes fighting against spamming or "enshittification" exponentially hard. Just ask anyone who bothered to run their own mail server or open forum board. It's just not feasible for us to be able to have a nice experience without a level of trust.