[frereubu]

"I still miss the crisp lines and clear affordances of actual buttons and other elements of that time..."

If you go into System Preferences > Accessibility > Display and turn "Increase contrast" on, it adds clear lines around almost everything, which is the closest I've found to that. I tried it for a while, but I found it too harsh in the end. It would be nice to have a setting which was inbetween the two extremes.

[grishka]

There's a setting to "show shapes of toolbar buttons" or whatever it's called in English. It adds 1px faint grey lines around them. I turned it on the day I got my M1 mac. Doesn't help with the fact that the icons on these buttons are drawn as if there's no pixel grid and so are a blurry mess, but better than nothing still.

[deergomoo]

> Doesn't help with the fact that the icons on these buttons are drawn as if there's no pixel grid and so are a blurry mess

Are you using a MacBook by any chance? Out of the box the Air and 13” Pro are set to render to a higher resolution than the panel, which is then non-integer scaled down. So everything is just sort of fuzzy.

[grishka]

The new MBP with M1 Max. They do look okayish on the built-in display. You can still see the fuzzy edges if you look at them long enough. But I'm using mine with a non-retina monitor and it shows these fuzzy edges such that you can't ignore them.

[bitigchi]

Where is it? Can you add a screenshot?

[grishka]

It's the last checkbox in display accessibility settings: https://imgur.com/5mEgihY

The one above it is also useful, it brings back the tiny draggable file icons in title bars in apps that edit files.

[bitigchi]

По-моему это только в Monterey. У меня ещё Big Sur -- но буду знать!