[monooso]

Given your chosen quotes, I don't understand your confusion.

The author explicitly acknowledges that Apple makes excellent hardware, and the desire to switch is driven solely by problems with the software (OS).

> All this made me realize Liquid Glass and Apple's software incompetence is absolutely universally hated, yet their hardware is universally loved. So credit where it's due, they make great hardware.

[Carrok]

I have no issue with liquid glass. IMO it’s a few people making a bunch of noise about vanishingly minor complaints. So, like all things, not universal.

[stasomatic]

Me neither. Much ado about nothing, just fodder for podcast fillers. I've been on the Mac since System 6. It's not a badge of honor, it's that we've been there before. Ups and downs all along, but at least for me who doesn't run anything in production on a Mac, all these squeals are annoying noise. Don't like it, get something else, it's just a machine, dude. Turnis will not read your emails.

[bartvk]

Exactly this. Whenever macOS updates, I avoid any and all posts here, on Reddit, on wherever because it's just full of complaints and threats to leave macOS.

In the meantime, I update, note the minor (to me) changes and go about my work.