Some would say this amazing diss by Captain Disillusion at BlenderCon had something to do with the major interface changes in Blender 2.8. The entire presentation is hilarious but for the interface related bit I've linked to 21m15s here: https://youtu.be/1qSTcxt2t74?t=1276
I really enjoyed that, thank you. Alas, I wasn't even thinking about the version he used to demonstrate. Based on some cursory searches, I must have been thinking about the 1.x version where everything was at the bottom. Feelin old.
