[LightDestory]

In my opinon, having a good but old design is better than doing a reskin, mainly because this almost always results in negative user feedback. I'm pretty sure most people right now have accustomed to VLC's iconic UI, and wouldn't like a sudden change (me included), this is mainly because the current UI works as intended, and you don't really need to reinvent the wheel here.

Imo, if VLC really wants to introduce a reskin, they should do it as a secondary option, but not enabled by default. If the userbase likes it, they can enable it in the settings, otherwise they can simply keep using the current UI.

We can say the same thing for Windows 7 to Windows 8/10 redesign. A lot of people still sticks with Windows 7 UI but... let be clear the new Windows 10 design is clearly better and with the future 21H2 (with has been announced as the biggest Windows 10 UI refresh.

The old Windows' ControlPanel was the hell, a lot of features inside a window, all there without a proper search function. The new "Settings" of Windows 10 is very easy to use and it is slowing absorbing every feature of the old control panel.


We need to innovate, going against the user-base sometimes.