The UI Cockroach
I would like to suggest that a User Interface element that is completely unnecessary and not part of an application’s core functionality, yet can’t be gotten rid of, be called a UI Cockroach. A shining example of this is the ribbon bar in Word 2008, which is that circa-2001 Aqua-style bar right above the ruler:
You can’t get rid of this thing as long as you’re in layout view. Although Microsoft has provided literally hundreds of configurable toolbar items that can be reorganized, reconfigured, hidden, combined, and detached in ways that no sane person would ever want or need, somebody at Microsoft made the decision that this monstrosity had to stay on the screen at all times no matter what. Even if you press the lozenge in the upper right of the window’s toolbar — the one that hides all the toolbar elements — it still says visible.
