I have started noticing regression after regression in almost all devices I use, mostly due to all the "reinvention" going on.
In Monterey they made it easier to use multiple audio outputs. The new UI removes scrolling over the speaker icon to change volume.
After updating to Monterey some of my keyboards don't have a command key. They worked until I updated. Now I get weird issues. But only on the non-US-ansi layouts (I'm Swedish).
Similar things:
Firefox on android started opening things from the most visited list in new tabs. I press the address bar and press one of my 8 most visited sites (which account for 95% of my sites) and they open in a new tab. This changed from one version to another, and now I regularly have 40 tabs, some I want to keep.
Google decided that the volume up button on 3.5mm headphones should start the assistant. So suddenly none of my headphones work as they should.
I notice things like this all the time. Especially the last one kills me. Who, who?!!, thought this was a good idea. Every update on os X and my smartphone brings something that makes me feel like I am fed a turd. I don't use Windows, but I suspect it is the same thing there.
The worst thing on macOS is how they are removing all affordances that made the Mac so nice to use.
They removed:
- scrollbars
- toolbar labels
- color
- separator between title bar and content
- resize indicator
- document icons
A lot of things are still there if you know where to look, but I feel like learning macOS is a lot harder than it used to be. Watching my kid struggle to drag a window is infuriating. There's no logic why it's possible to drag the window by the top 50 pixels only, unless you know the history that this used to be the title bar which looked different than the rest of the window on earlier versions of macOS...
In Monterey they made it easier to use multiple audio outputs. The new UI removes scrolling over the speaker icon to change volume.
After updating to Monterey some of my keyboards don't have a command key. They worked until I updated. Now I get weird issues. But only on the non-US-ansi layouts (I'm Swedish).
Similar things:
Firefox on android started opening things from the most visited list in new tabs. I press the address bar and press one of my 8 most visited sites (which account for 95% of my sites) and they open in a new tab. This changed from one version to another, and now I regularly have 40 tabs, some I want to keep.
Google decided that the volume up button on 3.5mm headphones should start the assistant. So suddenly none of my headphones work as they should.
I notice things like this all the time. Especially the last one kills me. Who, who?!!, thought this was a good idea. Every update on os X and my smartphone brings something that makes me feel like I am fed a turd. I don't use Windows, but I suspect it is the same thing there.