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> I don't know much about the Apple ecosystem, I am sure it is great, but did they survive the mobile apocalypse and managed not to mess things up?

They didn’t. Flat design, invisible scrollbars, lower contrast, rounded corners, unintelligible monochrome vector icons, and other loss of affordances have found their way into macOS (and iOS of course). But at least the macOS UI does not try to be touch-compatible.