I'm holding off upgrading my laptop (2013 MBP running Catalina) until they get their UI stuff together. I'd just gotten used to Sequoia on my desktop but this is unbearable.

Not a single update since 2019 has improved the UI more than it regressed it in my opinion. Too much whitespace, too little contrast, too big controls, and now too little readability.

It's almost like their entire UI department is under threat of being fired unless they invent a radical UI update every other year.

Even Vista was a readability zen compared to this and they aren't listening to feedback at all.

Installed Mint on my GAMING Windows system, uninstalled Steam on Windows. All is well.

While at it, nuked my old MacBook Pro and Air with Mint too - not like they are getting updates anyway.

It can be done, it should be done. These commercial operating systems have enshitified to a critical point and are beyond repair.

The thing that’s weird about this though is it isn’t enshitification. I don’t want to defend the worsening of software quality/ux/ui for monetary gain but at least it’s somewhat rational. This is not a change that emphasizes profit driven changes over user driven ones. Maybe I’m missing some profit motive but it just seems like an awful design choice.

Edit: Not to disagree though. I too have a Linux gaming pc and are helping friends do the same.

Maybe not enshittification in the sense that every other UIImageView has an ad in it, but definitely a huge regression from the UI it had before.

Sadly it's only a matter of time until everyone copies it because it's cool and it's what Apple does so they must be right!