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Is that something the programmer decides or are they just implementing what the designer decided?

More than anything it looks like a value that was forgotten and never updated from past versions where the radius wasn't so severe.

Exactly. I don't know how about "big design houses" like Apple, but in my small shop designers _only_ care about static screen stories. They don't care how user will click those icons, how focus will work, how any dynamic aspects of complex UI works.

In past it was "given" by desktop env, now it's all rebuilt in material or other design but without any advanced behavior, it only "looks good on static screen".

At a place like Apple, I can bet that it's not like some contract engineering shop where a blob of programmers just sit there blindly implementing whatever is written by someone else in Jira tickets. The final product that ships in the OS is going to be the result of massive, often heated negotiation between HI and the engineering DRI. A huge change to the look and feel is unlikely to be implemented if there's strenuous objection from engineering leadership.

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