I have a functioning NeXT Cube on my desk that I’m quite fond of, but I’m afraid I couldn’t disagree more. The UX feels like a bulky and weird variant of CDE,

I have a functioning NeXT Cube on my desk that I’m quite fond of, but I’m afraid I couldn’t disagree more. The UX feels like a bulky and weird variant of CDE, and I hate CDE. Icons and widgets consume too much space for no reason, and the entire UI feels complicated and involved for no appreciable benefit. I still think the pinnacle was BeOS, and that’s because it felt like a refined Mac System 7.