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by jval43 237 days ago
Unironically Mac OS 7/8/9 felt the best IMHO. Even though there were some missteps (the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Strip was awful) and 9.x got a bit overloaded towards the end.

Mac OS X (and macOS still) never felt as good.

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Apple's classic human interface guidelines were well thought out. They should consider (re)reading them sometime.
Tiger was fine :D
A lot of people argue it peaked with snow leopard; that was consistent, performant, and feature complete, not yet overly influenced by mobile.
Tiger still had that weird thing where half the apps were brushed metal for no apparent reason.