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I am not sure what you meant with underdeveloped, but I felt as time moved on, macOS became kind of cluttered with many small components that (from my POV) didn

by wsc981 4y ago

I am not sure what you meant with underdeveloped, but I felt as time moved on, macOS became kind of cluttered with many small components that (from my POV) didn't add much. Perhaps you feel many of these components added much needed features? Usability wise, I feel System 7 was the high point of Classic macOS.

duskwuff 4y ago
The Control Manager in System 7 (and earlier) was pretty barebones in terms of features. Buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, scroll bars, popup menus, and text fields -- and that was it. A lot of commonly used UI elements, like heavy lines around default buttons or boxes around groups of controls, weren't part of the Control Manager and had to be implemented by individual applications -- and anything more complex like tables or toolbars was right out. The System 7 version of Control Manager didn't apply much in the way of styling to controls, either. Windows were white; controls were black and white. Scrollbars got a bit of color in System 7, but nothing else did. It was funtional, but it wasn't pretty, and a lot of applications used custom CDEFs to add a bit of shading and color.