Great comment.  I&#x27;m finding it one answer of your ? To be more and more a &quot;depends on your project.&quot;<p>I do theoretically find a website to be a form of &quot;artistic expression&quot; but unlike most other medium, there is a technically &quot;right&quot; few ways and many &quot;wrong&quot; ways to &quot;implement&quot; your art.   When you see a website posted here that takes a bit of artistic liberty in its design, you will <i>undoubtedly</i> have some HN commenters criticize the way they did such and such.<p>Despite the fact the page load time is only affected by one millisecond, that &quot;incorrect&quot; implementation is reason enough for some to trash the designer and deem his &quot;solution&quot; inadequate.<p>What we then see is a world full of TALENTED designers often too afraid to try something new.<p>But, isn&#x27;t that the point of art? It&#x27;s meant to be polarizing.<p>This is just personal opinion, but I&#x27;m finding it more and more necessary for the designer of the modern web to have <i>multiple, concurrent projects</i> as opposed to completing one project and moving on to the next.<p>Currently I&#x27;m working on an athletics site which uses your now &quot;bread and butter&quot; design which the OP gripes on, but I&#x27;m also working on a payment web app which has a design that harkens to someone filling out a clipboard.<p>I&#x27;ve just this week also accepted a project to showcase a fashion designers portfolio, and I&#x27;m swinging for far left field on that one.<p>If I was not working on these projects concurrently, I would not have learned that each design has advantages and disadvantages, and I would be pidgeonholing myself <i>if I didn&#x27;t give myself room to fail</i><p>We are all still learning and growing in web development.<p>And our consumers are growing too.  One interesting thing you mentioned is that users are steadily growing more accustomed to the hamburger button - a quick google search will tell you that the Hamburger wasn&#x27;t so tasty in AB testing, however, users learn.   I&#x27;ve been a part of a reason site redesign which found the extra click of a dropdown menu was better liked (and had more click through) than the link bar, despite our demographic was relatively older users!<p>And The hamburger menu is a great case study as it has become commonplace in modern design.  You could go with the triple bar, or do Apple&#x27;s approach of a double bar that rotates into an &quot;X&quot; ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apple.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apple.com</a> ), or you could do Google&#x27;s three circles arranged vertically in their mobile Chrome browser, but the concept is essentially the same.<p>Now, there are very talented developers on HN that <i>despise</i> the hamburger, and perhaps rightfully so, but you often hear crickets when an alternative is proposed.   Certainly the tabbed interface at the bottom with a &quot;More&quot; button works, but it doesn&#x27;t work for every case.<p>So sure, you will have some projects where you have to go with what is known, but try some other projects to challenge a different approach out of you to build up your chops.