Honestly, they used to be so good. I grew up on OS 8 and 9 on a PowerMac. Frankly, even the earlier OS X versions were pretty good. I think they really started going downhill at the same time that they ended the Skeumorphic design era around 2013 or 2014 with 2013's Mavericks being the literal last version to introduce any meaningful features for power users or doing anything that anyone other than middle-aged suburban moms were interested in. I think that was their shark jump moment, before everything went downhill.
2014 brought Yosemite, and all that brought was a new visual style and iPhone integration to pair nicely with the iPhone 6, whose two new features began and ended with "screen bigger" and Apple Pay.
Honestly, they used to be so good. I grew up on OS 8 and 9 on a PowerMac. Frankly, even the earlier OS X versions were pretty good. I think they really started going downhill at the same time that they ended the Skeumorphic design era around 2013 or 2014 with 2013's Mavericks being the literal last version to introduce any meaningful features for power users or doing anything that anyone other than middle-aged suburban moms were interested in. I think that was their shark jump moment, before everything went downhill.
2014 brought Yosemite, and all that brought was a new visual style and iPhone integration to pair nicely with the iPhone 6, whose two new features began and ended with "screen bigger" and Apple Pay.
I miss being excited about tech.