@edfloreshz @marioguzman I mean, what purpose is turning the iOS 18 toolbars in Apple Music into *this* actually serving?

Apple's supposed design goal here is to "put the focus on your content" but it doesn't DO that. It's just announcing itself, and congratulating itself for its own cleverness, over, and over, and over again, all over the OS.

What, and I mean this absolutely sincerely, is this accomplishing for ANYBODY beyond 'Well, it doesn't look like iOS 18"?

@edfloreshz @marioguzman "just use the tinted appearance", which is no better and doesn't do a thing to fix countless other issues, or "just use reduce transparency" which has all the same issues, *and it looks worse.*

"Looking worse" is my admittedly subjective opinion, but for computers and devices I'm going to use every day, it's relevant to me, even if it's not relevant to anybody else on earth.

Could it all get better? Sure. Will it?

I dunno that anybody at Apple gives a damn. (3/3)

@edfloreshz @marioguzman I have LOVED Apple's devices and platforms, warts and all, for years. But this just reeks of "well, it's different from iOS 18, and usability be damned."

If I had any hope that this was take 1, and takes 2 and 3 (and 4) are coming, well... okay. I'll wait out the mess and skip Tahoe on my Mac, and see what iOS/macOS 27 look like and if there's any sign that things are getting better, then fine.

But so far, the "solution" seems to be (2/)

@edfloreshz @marioguzman I mean, I'm sure they *could* do those things.

But this isn't 2001 any more. Apple is no longer the barely-off-of life support company still in turnaround. How long will it take for us to get to something like Mac OS X Tiger, that's actually usable and looks better than the excesses of early Aqua?

Is this even on anybody's mind at the SVP level at Apple any more? I honestly... don't know, any more, and that makes me wistful. (1/)

@edfloreshz @marioguzman not that I can find. There was a plist you could use that would mostly revert apps back to Sequoia's appearance, but it apparently caused problems when the system still tried to render some liquid glass elements anyway. (Apparently, Apple disabled it during the betas for 26.1. I suspect it wouldn't have lasted anyway.)

I'm really just resigned to the likelihood that this is going to take years for Apple to come to accept that this needs to change, if they ever do.