not good for business if both the appearance and function of your products are giving people Lovecraftian breakdowns but you have to do infinite growth in scope so the only way out is to minimize the visual element
still in the oven though 
not good for business if both the appearance and function of your products are giving people Lovecraftian breakdowns but you have to do infinite growth in scope so the only way out is to minimize the visual element
still in the oven though
That could definitely be part of it, but I think minimalist UIs can also be easier to make (and nicer to code). It doesn’t take a graphics artist to make some simple shapes in CSS (I’m absolutely not artistic but I can easily put together a decent looking simple UI) and vector graphics make it much easier to make elements look good on any size screen.
On the other hand, I’m pretty sure you could make a skeuomorphic UI with just CSS, but it would probably be harder to make a decent one.