All such criticisms would be much more defendable if the authors' view of the past weren't so rosy with a strong liquid blur of the Job's myth.

> that are, once again, intuitive, discoverable, easy to use, and that both look and work well.

Never was this the case! All these past OSes had a lot of the same fundamental flaws along all of those dimensions, from basic search ("discoverable/easy") fails in both iOS and macOS.

Otherwise maybe it's indeed closer to

> I’m becoming more cynical with age and general tech fatigue