Great writeup & points. I can't imagine sticking with Mac all this time if I had started on the rough 10.10 release.
> It’s a rare misstep from Apple — and an unprecedented one in scale.
There's a lack of taste & lack of respect for the user, too. Things that usually don't get fixed in point releases and take a long time to course-correct.
I think the goal was to do something competitors could not easily pull off. They failed, but I think that was the goal.
With Android's diverse/fractured ecosystem, a similar "system wide" look with reflectivity would be hard to deliver across the board on Android with so many models having very bare specs.
> It’s a rare misstep from Apple — and an unprecedented one in scale.
There's a lack of taste & lack of respect for the user, too. Things that usually don't get fixed in point releases and take a long time to course-correct.