> Snow Leopard was also my first experience with macOS, so I don't know how much that factors into things. It's not just rose coloured glasses... I've used all

> Snow Leopard was also my first experience with macOS, so I don't know how much that factors into things. It's not just rose coloured glasses... I've used all of the classic Mac OS version and OS X from about 10.3 up to snow leopard, there were good, bad and ok versions, none terrible, all the way through there. But 10.6 was the best of the OS X in terms of stability and simplicity, from that point on it really felt like the whole system was being taken in a different direction, no more tick-tock feature-stability release schedule, and no more refinements, just more pseudo features to flash at prospective buyers, more bugs, more cruft, more unforgivable security mistakes, more bloat and far, far less control - basically turning into a bad iPhone as far as I was concerned. I retreated to 10.6 for as long as I safely could then moved to a Linux desktop when they officially ended support for my machine deeming it obsolete.