I don't see how that is an example of Photoshop gone awry.

Here's the thing: Photoshop offers you tools to enhance your work. But if the source material is terrible, there's only so much it can do. In this case, rather than use an actual photograph of the software boxes, Adobe got some noobish graphic art intern to render 3D models of the boxes. Do they look terrible? Absolutely. But that's what happens when you render them in AutoCAD instead of making real world mock-ups.