[mike_hearn]

That seems harsh. Apple famously hardly uses the web stack and prefers their own platform. Their software is also pretty high performance in general and starts quickly, partly as a consequence. Software would have focused on branding no matter what, that was already a trend in the 1990s with WinAmp, every Office version having a unique look etc.

[ehaliewicz2]

Just wait until you try Ventura. Every submenu in the systems settings menu has gone from being perfectly fast, to taking around two seconds to load (at least on my 2019 MBP)..

[mike_hearn]

I know :( People remark on it though exactly because it seems like a sudden and recent decline in standards.