[eyelidlessness]

If it’s any consolation, every time I see the Sparkle update UI it reminds me of a much better overall Mac UX and makes me glad some semblance of it still exists. I could certainly critique the design in some ways, but I think it was quite good at providing a consistent upgrade mechanism across the whole ecosystem at the time, and it still has some distinct advantages over the multitude of equivalents that exist today, across MAS and Chrome-style background updates and the kitchen soup of Electron. Even if the interface could be improved, its consistency over so many years is a testament to how well it already solved the problems it addressed. If I could, I’d go back to the de facto standard of Sparkle updates to native Mac apps in a heartbeat.