Winterfang
Banned
Not during the PS3/360 generation. XMB remained clean and simple throughout, even though it did become a little worse with that one update, and the store became awful at some point. Meanwhile, the X360 blades were decent, but it was all downhill from there. There was one iteration of NXE which was OK, but the one before that was slow, and the one after that (basically what we have today) is an ad-ridden mess.
Can't roll my eyes hard enough to this. XMB is a hot mess, I had a PS3 for a couple of months and even firing up a game requires got like 3 tabs to the left and 4 down then press X, while on the Xbox you just press A twice. Not to mention those huge ads, I never understood why people say PS3 doesn't have ads, when the first thing I see when I launch it is huge banners for games that I don't own.
Aestetically is not even close, XMB is like an early version of android, filler with Godawful customization of low res Transformers and NBA pics (I shared my PS3 with my sis). Unless there's some secret OS or something, I believe people are talking out of their ass (like when people say the Dualshock is a great controller for shooters)