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> Apple simultaneously made a radical move toward visual simplicity and elegance at the expense of learnability, usability, and productivity.

Case in point: calendar.

I simply cannot tell where one month ends and another begins in the flat UI. Sure, the skeuomorphic version looked corny, but it was a lot easier to use.

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and iTunes went from a fully featured media library that focused on managing the media on your hard drive. iTunes STILL manages the media on your hard drive, but it's nearly impossible to manage the files through the stripped-down iTunes interface.

iTunes used to be a power-app, now I can hardly use it.

> iTunes used to be a power-app, now I can hardly use it.

This happens to a lot of software. There used to be lists of "last good version of ..."

The Usenet group alt.comp.freeware sometimes used to recommend the last good version rather than the latest version. There's probably a Reddit subreddit for it.

ACDSee and Nero burning rom are well known examples. I guess Imgur is at risk of this, but they seem to be keeping stuff in check.

Did they strip it down? I haven't opened it for the past several OS releases. It always annoyed me that they added so many conceptually different applications to an audio player.

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