Flat design is easy to accomplish for designers who never learned how to draw, or do computer modeling.<p>Unfortunately, most design programs don&#x27;t actually teach these foundational skills.  That means there are a lot of designers out there who are forced to work in an oversimplified print-design style to hide their incompetence.<p>As someone who hires for this stuff, finding skilled designers is unimaginably hard.<p>I hear designers constantly complaining about the lack of jobs. They&#x27;re full of it. The problem is the lack of skilled applicants. Design has become filled with lazy people, while being arguably one of the hardest fields to be good at. I&#x27;ve had ads out in a major US city for months for a very good paying design job, and have yet to see a portfolio that looked even moderately professional.<p>That&#x27;s really where this all comes from, flat design hides designer incompetence.