The problem lies deeper. There's only so much work that the humanity legitimately needs done, but the economy is built upon the assumption that everyone can get a job. So we end up creating jobs the society at large doesn't actually benefit from to make sure every person has to do some work to earn money to live. This includes ballooning IT companies about which you can't help but keep asking "where does enough work even come from to occupy all these people, in a product that's essentially finished".

I don't know how to even approach solving this.

Iterating design after success to make it worse isn't the same thing as planned obsolescence.

> We need to find a way to move on, once something is perfected

The GUI/UI/UX on Android is so close to perfection like a zygote is close to a human being.