Mac OS has become a richly productive bug farm, lately.
I wonder if they'll ever get around to actually reading their bug reports, though...
At first I held back because of the ecosystem (i.e. still really liked iOS. But now that iOS is kinda sucking ass too, it makes it a much easier proposition.)
I am totally annoyed by the animations in Apple Notes. The icons have considerable increased in size and everything screams what a mess to me: the shadow as part of "the experience", partly rounded icons which talk more space than rectangles, hidden functions or multi function menus.
There is absolutely no spirit in this update. The animations show no variations, always the same most boring ones (the s curve in Apple Notes).
Lately I found die settings menu in Safari especially disastrous, the tab menu icons when pressed look so ridiculous, I lost words.
2) 10.6.0 included significant under-the-hood improvements but also brought some truly nasty new bugs and was significantly buggier than 10.5.8, released a few weeks prior
3) 10.6 received 23 months of subsequent minor bug fix updates, up to 10.6.8 v1.1
We'd need two Snow Leopards in a row just to match Snow Leopard purely in development time, but now there's a lot more preexisting technical debt built up after well over a decade of annual major releases.
I was on Ventura until I very recently upgraded to Sequoia. Three little undocumented changes I noticed:
1) My Thunderbolt 4 NVMe enclosure was unusable in Ventura and would cause Finder to hang. It's usable now.
2) I could finally connect to my 6Ghz access point with my M2 MacBook Pro.
3) I think the HDR brightness transition was also tweaked to be a bit less annoying.
I'm skipping Tahoe because it's hot garbage, but I look forward to macOS 27.
Also, ditch liquid glass on MacOS. That sh t is so Windows 7. It wasn't cool then and it isn't cool now. What the hell are you guys doing? Copying Microsoft now? It so, outdated, slow and twitchy, makes it hard to read. There's literally no upside to it. None. Zip. Nada.
mikequinlan•2h ago