[mulmen]

Ok but it sounds like your new camera is actually better. My new MacOS is just the same, or slightly worse. The changes in Big Sur don't solve any problems I actually have. Notifications are just more fiddly. Common actions are no longer prominently available, they are hidden behind hovers and tiny buttons, or simply gone. The interface uses more space and provides less information.

[Pokepokalypse]

>Notifications are just more fiddly.

OMG - I hate the new notifications. Dismissing them is a very expensive task. Almost makes me want to disable notifications altogether.

[bayindirh]

Strange. I’m using macOS for ~12 years now and Big Sur is not worse for me.

I’m not trying to say you’re wrong. On the contrary, since I don’t use macOS that deeply (I’m a Linux guy mainly), not feeling the change for worse is intriguing for me.

[mulmen]

Disruptive changes to me personally in Big Sur:

1) They changed keyboard shortcut and navigation behavior, I now have to use twice as many keystrokes to navigate Mail than I did before. Some keyboard navigation options are now impossible.

2) Messages was rewritten for Catalyst and is far more unstable. Keyboard navigation is impossible.

3) Notification buttons and behavior. This now requires hovers and the gestures do different things than they did before.

4) Application icon shape and location. Mail has buttons moved around and the icons are different. Functionality is basically the same but muscle memory is reset.

5) Window title bars are bigger and application minimum sizes are larger but fewer options are available, requiring more clicks to get to nested functionality, if it is even available. My 16” screen on Big Sur now shows as much information as my 13” screen on Catalina.

They are small changes but they are still changes. Small enough that the functionality is basically the same but big enough I have to re-learn it, and for no benefit to myself.