UX/UI research if it exists at all is akin to religious healers who touch you on your head and bam you can suddenly walk after spending 25 years in a wheelchair.
I say that 99.5% of the UI/UX blog posts I've read in the last 10 years were all hogwash. Gloating about spacing, gaps, unnecessary I know this better mantra that leads to nowhere.
And it shows. Show me a platform where you have proper user experience and not some overgeneralized ui, that reeks of bad design. Also, defaults used everywhere.
Hogwash.