Yesterday, I wanted to show some pictures from a recent paragliding trip to my family. After ten or more seconds of flick scrolling through the list of hundreds of photos stored on the phone, my mother, whose mastery of all things technical borders on computer illiteracy at times, asked "Why don't you organize your pictures in folders?" Yes, why not? Even she can accomplish that on her five years old Nokia phone. Well, Mom, Microsoft opted against custom creation of folders or categories in the pictures hub because they want to keep things lean and simple.
Ok, granted, you can browse by date, having the pictures hub jump to the beginning of the current month, but then again, there already is one "Favorites" category, so why not allow me to add more such categories like "Vacations", "Work", "Norp", or else. Combined with (1) the lack of interactive scroll bars, (2) the fact that the pictures hub invariably sorts pictures by the oldest date heading the list, and (3) the pictures hub does not remember your view position from where you previously left off makes the omission of folders a strong contender for the So-Dumbed-Down-It-Hurts award.
The same holds for the app list, which just becomes longer and longer on my phone.
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