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That's the problem. For example modern MacOS has in your face notifications and allows applications in the background to steal focus.

I gather classic Mac OS was done so you can get on with whatever you're doing and nothing bothered you.

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This is easily remedied.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-a-focus-on-or-...

No. It should be the default. And I bet it only refers to notifications, not to other applications stealing focus (as in bring themselves to the foreground) from the one you're into because they think they're damn important.

Do Not Disturb by default is a question of taste and use case, they probably brought to the desktop what people seemed to like on mobile devices.

Applications stealing focus is a plague though. Maybe Apple will finally figure out that it's not worth having in their API.

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