@glyph I kinda need a “I don’t hate it option”. It’s fine but I wish they hadn’t done it. But all the posturing and handwringing leading up to it was once again stupid and has shown how we can’t have normal conversations even about the shapes of icons without making it weird

@hynek Why do you think it was stupid? What would a normal conversation have looked like?

@glyph The opposite of “my timeline is full of posts declaring they’ll never update and quote every shred that can confirm that bias” would’ve been nice. I had a completely wrong impression of how it’ll look/work like based on that — which kinda sucks

@hynek yeah okay I could have done without that

@hynek looking back over my own takes (which were wrong, but I think defensibly not-extreme) I do think that this was kind of an own goal by Apple, in that their marketing materials made it consistently look much worse than the product itself. I'm re-watching the original announcement and many of the videos were showing far more transparency and far more wibbly wobbly nonsense than shows up in any app I have interacted with thus far, and the editing techniques they use accentuated it a lot.

@glyph I mean I’m not stoked even now, but how the fuck did that become another righteous crusade!? I only updated after you were publicly surprised it’s fine