The organic layout was what made Exposé different and useful. Imagine this scenario: four fully maximized windows, one on top of the other. Exposé would put one

The organic layout was what made Exposé different and useful. Imagine this scenario: four fully maximized windows, one on top of the other. Exposé would put one window on every quarter of the screen, but their places and sizes would be different, so every window moved in a different way. That helped A LOT with eye-tracking. I remember the Compiz knockoff (of 12 years ago) simply assigning each window a quart er of the screen. Same core principle, slightly different execution, yet much much worse usability. Exposé was a feature of a time when Mac OSX was at its peak. The OSX usability guidelines were very different to the Windows ones, and it showed (every user coming to Mac had to adapt). Apple decided to throw all this away a few years ago. Exposé was turned into Mission Control, which has more features, but worse usability and aesthetics. And macOS is more intuitive to Windows-trained users, at the expense of consistency and power-user productivity.