This is not an answer, though. Two articles 20 years apart and design wise the takes are the same - all new is worse than it was before 🤷🏻♂️
Bad things hurt and draw our attention, yet good things are taken for granted. Where are the “top 10 good things in new *os name*”? :)
While I agree with some points (like white buttons on a white background with no labels, that’s just objectively bad), I also think it’s very important to not be the grandpa simpson from the “old man yells at cloud” meme :)
Not all changes are objectively bad, some are just different. And it’s okay that people want a refresh, even if sometimes it’s less practical. Victorian corsets replaced the much more comfortable empire silhouette dresses. Wildly uncomfortable? Yes. Iconic? Absolutely.
Looking at this ~20 years later, you realize that some of these things became iconic (the Dock), and others were just the first steps towards a new design language that’s now the standard, while everything before it looks dated.
There was a link to your old post inside. I started reading it, and if you ignore the fact that it’s ~20 years old, it reads exactly the same as new one: “everything new is worse than what we had.” The 3D Dock is bad. The translucent menu bar is bad. The dropdowns is bad because of rounded corners.
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