I think this is just the blah and boring exterior of modern Apple hardware being carried over to the software inside. I remember the beauty of the original iMa

I think this is just the blah and boring exterior of modern Apple hardware being carried over to the software inside. I remember the beauty of the original iMac (compare the G3 to the current model at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac), or the beautiful clamshell iBook G3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook). Likewise, System 9 was beautiful, and the original OS X was even more so: it looked like candy, translucent and shiny. Now, everyone praises Ives for turning out yet another rectangle with some circles on it. Someone really should buy him a French curve to augment his straightedge and compass … The new macOS looks much the same: flat, boring, staid, plain. Now, I personally don't really mind that (my own WM is dark, muted and mostly invisible), but it seems rather a betrayal of what Apple used to stand for: actual beauty rather than simply the lack of ugliness.