While flat design can certainly help cover up incompetence, I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;d agree with &quot;that&#x27;s where this all comes from.&quot;  A lot of it is driven by functionality: flat designs generally scale better visually across devices, and generally produce smaller file sizes so downloading images is faster.<p>Agree strongly that good designers are very hard to come by - it takes years of experience combined with some level of innate talent to be a top level designer.