Re: Fix it! Fix it! Fix it!
"went back to being naturally smooth with Windows 8"
WHAT??? Where'd he go... damn, left already. I wanna throw things!
'naturally smooth'. you owe me a LUNCH. Mine just came up!
Seriously though you have identified *THE* problem I think. Prior to Win 3.x (and '9x) 2D FLATTY was the way things like the calculator were done. A 3D skeuomorphic UI is more intuitive, so it was done for '9x at least with the first major re-write [most likely].
And of course the Sinofsky+Larson-Greene "revolution" (2D FLATTY McFLATFACE) forced yet ANOTHER re-write to "that".
But 'calc' doesn't seem to get a whole lotta love, and so it's been relegated to what ended up on github, like some kind of token effort, by engineers who don't even like it nor use it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
