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Yeah but there was a huge push just last year, basically every single SaaS app to Firefox, everyone folded. During the Aqua days, every company had their own unique take on design. Today, it is a design monoculture driven by the types of Stripe and Apple.

Design used to be a differentiating feature. Everything looks the same today. Kind of a Big Tech dystopia, even in design.

As the owner of an ultrawide...so much whitespace.

My point was, a lot of UI followed or was heavily inspired by whatever Apple was doing even then. These days, there's more Google in the mix.

Before pill buttons, they were gray beveled rounded rectangles, be it native or web, on every platform.

I don't view now as being especially dominated by sameness versus the past.

Aqua - the "lickable" theme. I miss it, I prefer it to the current washed out MacOS where I cant tell what is what.

It was already there 10 years earlier in OpenLook.