[rootusrootus]

This has been one of my peeves for years. Apple is capable of good design, and overall is well regarded for it, but there are a number of places where they have blinders on and absolutely refuse to fix extremely obvious missteps.

[jbverschoor]

You say good. I'd call it minimal. Minimal doesn't mean good.

For example, I have bold text, larger text. On my mac I have all these contrast increasing settings enabled, simply because it's *not* good "design"

It's good that it's minimal, but this minimalism is also why many things don't work (timemachine, icloud files/photos -> everything needs to be automatic, causing recurring downloads follewed cache eviction of those files). Etc etc etc

[smt88]

Apple is capable of beautiful and minimalistic designs, but their usability has been terrible since basically the iPod.

Minimal is often an enemy of usable.