[philistine]

I get that this might annoy you, but there is a direct trace all the way back to the original Mac in 1984 that required a mouse. As time went on and the two other OSes we still have gained mouse support (Windows, Linux) from their keyboard roots, they brought forward their ethos of keyboard navigation. Mac OS resolutely stayed attached to its mouse only roots.

[layer8]

It was a significant downside of MacOS from the beginning, and it still is.

[someguyiguess]

That seems incredibly subjective. For people with carpal tunnel like myself, having to do everything on the keyboard can be very painful. The mouse alleviates that and gives visual feedback.

[bigyabai]

That's a good reason to support the mouse as a backup peripheral, but not a good reason to gimp keyboards in your interface.

Seeing as both can be accommodated, I would argue it's an objective limitation of macOS.

[someguyiguess]

Fair point

[bigyabai]

Annoying heritage is still annoying.

[kid64]

“When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.”

Well Tim, I suppose the blind do outnumber the handless.

[devinprater]

Can confirm.