I see this so often from developers and engineers. At some point, they got it into their head that they're also competent website designers and they end up creating sites that are absolute garbage. They're like, "well, I can write code so that means I can easily whip up competent website that meets the needs to the intended audience!" Lol no.

There's a reason website development and UX design are entirely seperate careers. With few exceptions, devs aren't qualified to create effective websites. It's just not the same skillset. And then they typically get defensive when you offer up any criticism, and they double down on insisting that it's good enough.

Effective, professional websites need both competent programmers, and competent designers. And this is a perfect example of that delusional mistake.