I find it fascinating that the flashpoint is utility app icons. Not the OS architecture, not some major new feature... just icons. Are we just in an era of polishing spoons because there's nothing new to build?

It’s not. We’re all pissed about a TON of what they’re going this year.

It’s more “This? You can’t even get this right? You could have left it alone and it would have been better. You have to crap up everything no matter how small with a poorly conceived bad redesign?”

Did you not read the story? The point is not that the icons are important, it’s that the lack of care is telling. You might think it’s cheesy, but care and details are important, even in the back of a cabinet.