Exactly, I'm also on mac and I don't really like some individual design choices, but when taken together, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Copyi

Exactly, I'm also on mac and I don't really like some individual design choices, but when taken together, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Copying some individual elements is just really dumb. For example, Gnome 3 copied the mac menu bar. Except menus don't actually go there (windows still have their own menu bar), negating the very meaning of having an unified menu bar. The result is that my desktop now has a ugly-ass, useless, wasteful black bar on top. Why. I have to agree with the OP, it's the triumph of form over function.