This simply means that Apple would rather outsource the job and make some small developer happy and a few users (like me) unhappy, rather than improve their hig

This simply means that Apple would rather outsource the job and make some small developer happy and a few users (like me) unhappy, rather than improve their highly praised interface. By the way, there is an ecosystem of excellent small utilities developed open source for linux that are, in my opinions, superior to the ones on OSX, or at least, the one I work and am familiar with. Of course open source produces many useless tools, but I've also found unusable applets for mac, so... Windows is of course out of the equation.