I've found myself missing classic OS X a lot more and more recently too. It was productive in a way that current macOS is not. Why? All the same elements are th

I've found myself missing classic OS X a lot more and more recently too. It was productive in a way that current macOS is not. Why? All the same elements are there -- screen-top menu bar, same UI controls, etc. What's the difference? I was so uncertain it was just nostalgia that I bought an old lampshade iMac on eBay (because I love the design) and used it for a while. It was running 10.4 Tiger. And I can see the same ingredients but... wow... Tiger was beautiful. It was just so simple to use. Why? What's actually different? I haven't answered this myself yet. But I feel a lot more ambivalent about Apple products than I used to. The article touches on this, but states it's because they have mature products with minor updates. I think, maybe, they have mature products which are worse than their earlier products.