I've not experienced this "bug-free software" you speak of. Where might I find such a thing? It does feel that Apple's development model is changing to an ann

I've not experienced this "bug-free software" you speak of. Where might I find such a thing? It does feel that Apple's development model is changing to an annual release cycle, wherein larger/systemic bug fixes are deferred to the next major release, rather than in a point release. In fact, most OS X release these days feel like "minor tweaks that make consumers happy + a truckload of bug fixes and plumbing". The fact that they deferred so much 10.0-era plumbing to 10.6 and beyond is indicative of why there's a lot of regressions, IMO.