The saddest part for me is that between the HIG (Apple speak for their "Human Interface Guidelines" documentation) and their own apps, Apple used to set a great

The saddest part for me is that between the HIG (Apple speak for their "Human Interface Guidelines" documentation) and their own apps, Apple used to set a great standard that inspired third party developers to commit to a similar level of UX polish. Apple's design awards handed out at WWDC used to be a real badge of honor, coming from a company as UX focused as they are. The four Marzipan apps Apple themselves have shipped in Mojave are garbage by the past standards of the Mac and I worry this telegraphs that this kind of shovelware is fine. This can establish a kind of "If it's good enough for Apple..." precedent. I also find it pretty hypocritical for Apple to constantly tell us they won't ship a touch screen Mac because you can't make an OS that is good for both touch and indirect input, but here they are providing a framework to dump touch screen UI apps on the Mac for use with a mouse. Instead of a poor unoptimized touch experience, we get left with a poor unoptimized mouse and keyboard experience, precisely the kind of thing Apple have spent years telling us that not putting a touch screen on the Mac would prevent. That said, I can sympathize with the counter-arguments in favor of this. Mac app development is nothing close to what it once was, perhaps this is the best we can hope for.