Improvements in Cocoa Touch make parts of Mac Cocoa look old and needlessly complicated. That's definitely a problem that needs addressing. If this is a major

Improvements in Cocoa Touch make parts of Mac Cocoa look old and needlessly complicated. That's definitely a problem that needs addressing. If this is a major general point, it should probably be explained as such; picking 4 specific examples and discussing them as free-standing, independent issues didn't convey a greater issue of "the Cocoa interfaces are too verbose for 95% of use cases" to me. If it's literally 4 methods, even namespace-prefixed category extensions seem a pretty attractive option to me. Granted, clarifying that would have reduced the list to 9 points rather than 12, making it 25% less linkbaity.