> By the way, Software Update in System Settings allowed my Mac to go to sleep during the “Preparing” phase, despite the fact that the battery was charged to 99%, so when I returned home from a workout I unhappily found 30 minutes remaining. Sigh. Whatever happened to “it just works”?
All the people that were fanatically dedicated to the concept of not shipping user-hostile software retired or got laid off or quit.
The state of care and level of user compassion in modern macOS is at the nadir.
Apple's been shipping user-hostile software for decades. I quit after they closed the gap in the wall that allowed me to add a song to my ipod without going through the monstrosity called iTunes.
The corporate culture shifted steadily at Apple following Jobs’ death. It was obviously a turning point for the company and while the change wasn’t overnight, in the ten years that followed, a lot of people moved on, because (obviously) Apple will never be Apple under Jobs ever again.
Because many of them had been with the company a long time (and were thus old), they were replaced by mostly younger people who had less experience with what makes Apple Apple.
In my personal opinion, the soul went out of the company. It wasn’t immediately when Jobs died - to his credit it took more than a decade for the momentum of his vision to die.
Today, Apple is just another multinational, nickel and diming their customer base for services revenue, cooperating with the totalitarian surveillance state (not that they have much choice in the police states of the PRC and USA in which they operate/can’t fight city hall), shipping incrementially improved products (and incrementally worse software), and misleading their customers with clever marketing. It’s just business. It used to be something else entirely.
All the people that were fanatically dedicated to the concept of not shipping user-hostile software retired or got laid off or quit.
The state of care and level of user compassion in modern macOS is at the nadir.