groundFungus:
Could you explain what that means and why it is so undesirable?
Amongst engineers there is a very prevalent ideology that aesthetics don't matter, and that the most usable user interfaces and controls are such that strictly follow the technical process behind them.
However, this generally results bad products that even engineers don't like, and can't use effortlessly unless they are familiar with the exact technology behind the user interface / control panel.
Not saying every engineer is like this, there are some really creative, innovative, even artistic or humanistic engineers. But a majority of engineers have "the engineering ideology".