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I'm still waiting for them to remove Launchpad (which seems like a half assed step towards unifying desktop and tablet systems), and I've yet to meet anyone that uses their weird new desktop management system, the thing with the windows on the left side. That just reminds me of the GUI experiments they did in the 2000s, with 3d environments and whatever Ubuntu (or gnome/kde/whichever) tried to do.

I'm hoping they're gathering usage analytics and will overhaul unused features.

Caveat, I'm probably not their average user, I do almost everything via Spotlight. I don't even use the bottom menu thing, it automatically hides and I only use it when I accidentally hid a window.



Launchpad has to be one of the worst ways to find and open applications on a Mac. That new window-managing system is honestly so unintuitive, so bad, and so bizarre that its mere existence feels like some sort of practical joke.

I wish that in the next version of macOS, they would strip away all those useless features and systems that they've shoehorned over the past two decades and have the OS look like how Panther or Tiger did, while taking up less than 10 GB of space on the puny SSDs that they ship their machines with.


I appreciate that they did UI experimentation and stuff but... not to the end user's expense. I wonder if anyone at Apple themselves actually use these features.




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