Pretty sure iOS 7 was regarded as awful on launch and then a little while later people decided it was amazing and lovely to look at once the kinks were ironed out.
People just don't like new things that change what they are used to.
One thing I'll definitely give Apple is that they have walked back some design decisions that were total flops in the past, such as the butterfly keyboard and the touchbar (though I found it more than a bit annoying when I'd see reviews saying how great and visionary Apple was for simply undoing bad decisions - it deserved an "OK, good" not an "OMG Apple is amazing!!)
I like this article because it points out how undeniably awful some of these decisions were in a "this signifies something is seriously, fundamentally wrong with Apple design" way. I really hope Apple listens a does a major course correction.
You can clean up git diffs a lot, I personally find them easy to ready anyway, with tools like delta[1] which make things super nice to read. Also if you use a text editor such as neovim you can integrate these things into your editor and get beautiful diffs right there.
That said I do not use neovim or delta, I just use git diffs or my language ide's diff features.
> I personally find them easy to ready anyway, with tools like delta[1] which make things super nice to read. Also if you use a text editor such as neovim you can integrate these things into your editor and get beautiful diffs right there.
All I can see here is “if I use two extra tools, I can almost have as good an experience as vscode (or IntelliJ or whatever) gives me out of the box”.
You mean adding a few lines to a config file once and never think about it again? Some people don’t want to have to deal with why they see as a load of bloated ‘features’, preferring instead to just focus on the task at hand, and that’s okay.
The article is as misguided as the snarky pushback. Let people work however they’re most comfortable and productive, why does it have to be a purity contest?
Don’t forget installing _and discovering_ those tools.
> The article is as misguided as the snarky pushback. Let people work however they’re most comfortable and productive, why does it have to be a purity contest?
Absolutely agree on it not being a purity contest. The article deserves pushback _because_ it’s arguing for purity
There were some rumours of macOS27 being a `Snow Leopard` style release with a focus on bug fixes and performance. This replacement kind of confirms that at least a little. I think Liquid Glass looks pretty but definitely needs a polish and some improvements to usability, it would be lovely if that's what is in store for us.
I have two, Ducky One 2 TKL (Cherry Brown), and a Durgod Taurus K320 TKL (Cherry Blue). Good keyboards and both similar to each other, but just find the magic keyboard a nicer experience.
This is the major issue, most free and open technology is not marketed as well; isn't anywhere near as user friendly and often times takes a lot more time and effort to setup. Most people don't care enough for that.
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