I’ve been to Portland, ME a few times for vacation and one time a few of us decided to bike everywhere. Couldn’t go car free since our hotel was a bit far away, but once we parked, it was bikes all day. There wasn’t a ton about Portland that made it stand out in terms of places you can’t find in other towns, but the ability to ride around to all those places made the difference between a vacation destination and just a thing to do for a weekend.
To have the same experience in terms of types of places to visit in a day my area would require driving 10-20 minutes between each spot which definitely takes the winds out of the sails for trying to enjoy yourself.
It’s poor UI but also I think it’s a sign that the userbase has been coddled too much with things like this. Even Google adding the search bar widget to their homescreen of Android is kind of an illusion since it doesn’t need to be shaped that way. But an entire generation has been programmed to type into a little empty field with a search button that they don’t think of alternatives anymore.
Windows 8 thru 11 are trying to add sleeker and more intuitive interface skins to be more usable for the masses but the underlying OS is still the same. Accessing additional options that a legacy Windows user uses all the time just takes you back to the old menus. It feels so lazy that each major windows iteration feels like a new skin on top of windows xp/2000 because not much really has changed since then other than the bloat and a few cute features that could’ve been done with a 3rd party app.
Obviously being a little reductive here but with how windows 11 looks, I would’ve imagined it being actually different. But as soon as I right click something and view more options, it’s clear it’s still the same stuff once the old right click menu pops up from underneath.