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It used to be that even-numbered releases fixed bugs and stabilized the OS, with notable features coming in odd-numbered releases. Now they don’t care. Unifying iOS and macOS has become the goal, and probably some PMs are getting nice promotions thanks to that. The golden stability of macOS (a la Snow Leopard) is gone. Now I get random reboots every other week, so I keep a tight Time Machine schedule.

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> It used to be that even-numbered releases fixed bugs and stabilized the OS, with notable features coming in odd-numbered releases.

That's a myth. The stability comes from minor bug fix updates, not from major updates. And the even-numbered Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for example had huge new features, such as Spotlight, Dashboard, VoiceOver, etc. Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar also had huge new features.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37809469

I stand corrected, and I’ll rephrase it as “it used to be that every now and then Apple released a version of macOS with notable fixes and small improvements.”

I’m not downplaying how much work is going into crazy features that millions probably like. But I make software, and I’m tired of how macOS is now marginally less annoying than trying to maintain an Arch Linux setup.

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