Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116284420045260547
It increasingly feels like a future we briefly had but was then taken away.
adacosta@tuomas_h I have been playing with Tahoe on my work M1 Max, Puma and Cheetah on my vintage TiBooks. Tahoe is in a universe of exceptional quality compared to the first five releases of Mac OS X. Design is subjective, but Liquid Glass issues is miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Are there issues, sure, but I think we at a v1 and its only gonna get better: 10.0, 10.5, 10.10, 11 were each resets that got better over time.
@adacosta I do agree to a degree. What we have now is probably more stable, but I just don't enjoy looking at any of it, unlike the 2000s Aqua interfaces.
I've got to pick on the notion that 11 got better over time... on my personal Mac, I moved directly from Big Sur to Sequoia and on my work Mac sequentially, and I cannot for the life of me name a single UI improvement that happened in the intervening years.
But I can certainly name a regression, and that's System Settings.
@tuomas_h I honestly don't see anything particularly productive about System Preferences vs Settings today. I still had to use spotlight search to find whatever function I was looking for buried under submenus and dialogs. So, thats not a great example. And if we are gonna go hard on the UI, the pinstripe design from 10.0 to 10.2 was jarring for many or brush metal Finder, 3D Dock etc. #macOS has always had polarizing design decisions throughout its history and Tahoe is no different.