> Meanwhile, Apple is no longer leading by example, at least not in a good way, as its recent Mac apps have been Catalyst ports or weird hybrids that feel more

> Meanwhile, Apple is no longer leading by example, at least not in a good way, as its recent Mac apps have been Catalyst ports or weird hybrids that feel more Web or iOS than Mac. Indeed. Home.app for macOS is an atrocious half-assed iOS port, and on macOS it feels worse than an Electron app. Why should macOS developers care about polished macOS UX when Apple has gaven up? Second problem is that Apple's post-Aqua flat design is bland. They've made it clean and simple to the point of removing all of its character. The design is now nothing but sterile sans-serif font and rounded corners with a box shadow. You used to be able to use just Cocoa, and have an app that has a unique Mac-specific look (even if not everyone loved brushed aluminium or toothpaste buttons, these were very distinctive elements). The widgets were polished and pixel-perfect to the point you could instantly tell which apps were native, and which were merely copying the look. But now this is gone. If you stick to only Apple's UI toolkit, your application will look like a low-effort webapp styled with 5 lines of CSS.