They have long departed from quality and functionality; Jobs has a no nonsense approach where form followed functionality. If it functioned properly, the form was intuitive. Apple UI interfaces from the Jobs years were incredible. Nowadays, under forced yearly redesign policy, we’re reversed so far things are just hidden and awkward.
Kinda funny: you force it and it sucks.
Heh. There was a time when you had to upgrade your OS by ... first going into iTunes. Maybe this is still the case.
Anybody would would make a critical productivity feature a hidden hover should be canned from a UX team. This choice was defended by Alan Dye.
EDIT: Oh, is this it? [0]. I can't say I ever noticed that before (when it still existed)
0: https://osxdaily.com/2014/08/20/open-files-new-app-proxy-ico...
This is the sort of integrated functionality you get when the OS, the application framework and the core applications that come with the OS are all written with each other in mind.
Its under System Settings → Accessibility → Display → Show window title icons
System Preferences I could pretty intuitively find anything I was looking for. The newer System Settings is basically unusable outside of search
The new one is not much better I agree. But the old one was objectively not great in terms of UX Design.
The main problem with the new one in my opinion is that they're shoehorning a mobile experience on the Mac. Something Apple does more and more (and not just Apple, gnome does it too)
A cost effectiveness measure over a well-thought out one, methinks
The UI that you're referring to is malpractice.
The way I see it is that Apple excels at designing and building UI patterns and systems (I don't think anyone comes close), but they're terrible when it comes to the UI of actual software products.
I'm thinking the word in that last sentence should be “excelled” (past tense).