I share your optimism, that people who remember what good Apple design felt like, will carry on the torch.
The generational knowledge transfer seems to have broke down somewhere within Apple, that only the superficial aesthetic is being carried on, while the fundamentals - user-friendly design, repairability, extensibility - are getting left behind.
> ..take all the good ideas from Apple's heyday and make another good OS. Maybe, if we're lucky, it'll even be open-source.
There are a number of open-source community projects that impressed me as having such a vision, going back to the roots, keeping the dream alive and designing the way forward.
The generational knowledge transfer seems to have broke down somewhere within Apple, that only the superficial aesthetic is being carried on, while the fundamentals - user-friendly design, repairability, extensibility - are getting left behind.
> ..take all the good ideas from Apple's heyday and make another good OS. Maybe, if we're lucky, it'll even be open-source.
There are a number of open-source community projects that impressed me as having such a vision, going back to the roots, keeping the dream alive and designing the way forward.