on macOS Monterey, the authentication pop-up dialog doesn't have focus when it appears Good. Focus has really become a problem on Macs. When I switched from

on macOS Monterey, the authentication pop-up dialog doesn't have focus when it appears Good. Focus has really become a problem on Macs. When I switched from Windows to Macs, programs were not allowed to steal focus from what you were doing. To me, it was an amazing thing to not be interrupted for every little piddly thing that some background process deemed to be the most important thing in the world. I was so much more productive when I wasn't being constantly interrupted, as I was in Windows. Then, not too long after Snow Leopard, that changed. Programs here and there started asserting themselves. Now it's like Windows days, and it's awful. Even Apple is guilty of this. A few days a week, I plug in four encrypted drives. It takes about five minutes for them to mount, so I go work on other things. I'll be happily typing away at something, and then suddenly find what I'm writing is being typed into the password field to unlock one of the drives. Finder — perpetually awful — can't even keep focus on itself in the middle of some tasks. Even on a brand new M1 machine, 90% of the time, when I Shift-Command-N to create a new folder, focus will land in some random window or pane. The new folder was created, but it's just "untitled folder" all by itself, because Finder decided to go scratch its butt. Or sometimes the name of the folder is the first few characters I wanted it to be, because in the middle of typing the name, Finder switched focus to something else. Or when I switch to some other program, and then switch back to Finder a good percentage of the time, I find out that none of the windows are in focus, and none of them are focusable with Command-~ at all. So, I have to go back to the trackpad to select the right window. The window I was using twelve seconds ago, the last time I was using Finder. I think allowing any pop-up to demand focus is a serious security flaw. I've sometimes found myself typing a password into a browser, or a word processor, because they've decided that they are the most important thing in my life at that moment.