> It was fine before.

Relevant PA: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/02/joy-and-joy-un...

The PS4-alike redesign was definitely way way worse though.

The store was originally a native app for the first couple of years. Whenever the Ribbon UI went to the one with sparkles, the store went to a crappy web UI that was unbearable to use.

I love seeing bits and pieces of the original UI that were clinging on by necessity, namely the firmware upgrade screen. It was likely made immutable at the cost of UI updates.

I had one way before the PS4 and never found the store usable. Super slow, apparent OOM crashes resetting scroll state, all kinds of pain, for years prior to the PS4.