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by super_mario 4259 days ago
I did it yesterday, and quickly restored Mavericks. I just can't get used to the UI inconsistencies and starkness of the UI.

Also, the Preview app renders PDFs completely differently on non-retina screens now. The text is way lighter and blurrier than on all previous releases, which is unacceptable to me (I have huge collection of documents and books in PDF format that I read and search through all the time). Spotlight is now limited to smaller window to display its results, so you must scroll through them, which is also a usability regression.

If they ever create actual dark mode where the window titles are also dark (so the entire OS is like iPhoto or iMovies) then I will consider upgrading (I was also happy with the default UI in all previous releases by the way). But the way the OS looks now is just hideously ugly to me. I hate the all white everything, and I hate the inconsistency of "dark" theme if it can be called that, where menu bar and dock and folder grid views are dark but everything else is pale gray/white. Also the dock looks 2D but if you have dock magnification the icons pop out of the dock making it temporarily look like its 3D. Really silly.

I'm taken aback by the direction Apple is taking and regression in refinement and taste. I always wondered how long will it take for them to go from what they were to just another mediocre, faceless corporate software development company after Jobs. Apparently, not that long.