I've been using it for ~6 weeks, and I'm also a bit confused by the hate since it's barely changed. I'm a fan of the improved UX harmonization across form factors. My intuition is that the minor and gradual "Duploization" of macOS in Sequoia and now Tahoe foreshadows touchscreen MacBooks.

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AlexandrB 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I'm a fan of the improved UX harmonization across form factors.

Don't understand why. A ~6" phone screen and a 3x1440p setup have little in common regarding what "effective" UX looks like. Unifying them for the sake of consistency risks making both worse.

	▲	CharlesW 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Absolutely, scalable UX is a hard problem, and it's taken Apple nearly two decades to get to this point. But to be able to learn a "Control Center pattern" (for example) and apply that across desktop, tablet, phone, HMDs and TV UXs has real benefits for ordinary users.

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reaperducer 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree with you. It really hasn't changed all that much. It's a bit more cartooney, but as long as it doesn't get in the way of my work, I don't care.

It looks like a lot of the hate flowing on HN is just people looking at worst-case screenshots on blogs and piling on. They haven't even used it.

There are a few things I'm not wild about, but for the most part it's a bunch of shoulder-shrugs. This isn't the end-of-the-world scenario that people are making it out to be.

I have a regular non-techie person in the family with a Mac who I think will like the changes. Those are the people who Apple is targeting. Not the tech bros and the wannabe posers who are desperately clutching their 10-year-old iPhones out of some kind of righteous indignation.

	▲	codr7 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I hope they pay well at least.