My issue is not that if icon represents what the application does but they all look alike.

The old school icons, even if they were not good representation of what applications did, were distinguishable from a distant. Once you memorized the icon, you would easily find it, on your machine or someone else’s. Even on very crowded desktop, each icon stood out.

Boring and same. Harder to use. It is for people who organize their books by the color of covers.

I prefer illustrations and old school icons. Every icon was unique and easily recognizable.

Now all icons look alike, and it takes longer to recognize.

There is no shortage of food anymore. Unless genocide, no one is starving.

You can’t always select the bottom 20%. Sometimes, whole teams or departments are eliminated. Employees are simply a number with cost and only thing matters is cost. They almost never look at individual performance or productivity.

If your manager or director is not getting laid off with you and you have a good relationship with them, then they might fight to keep you.