as an engineer I see and seeth all the time. I try to suss out these things before I buy to the distraction of one girlfriend (at least). Fashion has never been about function - it is all about form and marketing. AND CHANGE!

But when it comes to websites you have no choice. How many times do you find some idiots that regards themselves as highly knowledgeable &/or experienced who don't use there own website? The one that annoys me is when they change the page filename/URL for some idiotic sense of orderliness and the link you have carefully found is now broken? On my website I am motivated to check occasionally but far more people have it on the favourites, and that still makes it a broken link. So they go "Googling" (another example of bad ergonomics fueled by commerce/fashion) and find the competition!

Even governments, with highly paid webmasters do it. EG events listed as january, february, instead of this month, next month. Its not as if a bit of cleverness (make that smartness) in PHP or JavaScript couldn't solve the problem by having a "this month" page with computed redirects in a frame or layer. But no they is too edjukated to be that smart. They prefer broken links.