I feel like hardware problems on Macs are overblown, especially compared to the alternatives.
I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing, it seems like a weird hivemind take around here lately.
I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing, it seems like a weird hivemind take around here lately.
MacOS has had a bad run, though. It is substantially buggier than it used to be - I see far more weird silent failures than I have in a long time (pre-Snow Leopard), bad performance in some cases, etc.
And then there is all the Catalina security-related breakage. Maybe that will work out for the bulk of users, but it broke the platform for me. That's the reason I don't see myself paying for another.
Then add the silliness (thankfully behind us) with the butterfly keyboards on the MacBooks.
I can’t speak for the rest of us, but between the glitchy (for me) experience with Catalina and some of the unwelcome (to me) changes around SIP, I definitely feel less and less happy every time I sit down to do work on my Mac.
Something always seems to break for me on macOS updates. Often it's related to third-party software, but it still feels like a regression for me.
For Catalina:
* I use Karabiner-Elements for keyboard customization. Since Catalina, hitting capslock will randomly stop the keyboard from working until the OS is rebooted. My solution has been to remove my capslock key to avoid inadvertent presses.
* Since iTunes was removed, Apple Music no longer works with Firefly Media Server. This means that any NAS device with iTunes library support can no longer serve that library to macOS. My solution has been to give up playing music on macOS, since I can't find any software for the relatively simple use case of "play my pre-organized folder from this artist in chronological order by album".