I've been a Mac user for nearly a decade (and now I feel old), which isn't as long as some people but a bit longer than others and if I'm honest I have to agree

I've been a Mac user for nearly a decade (and now I feel old), which isn't as long as some people but a bit longer than others and if I'm honest I have to agree with many things. OS X has been through a couple of really big leaps really, which whilst I think were necessary they've come at a great cost in terms of usability. I'm going to pick on one Apple application for a minute, XCode. I used XCode on Tiger, on a very late model iBook and did my final year uni project on it and it was great. It was a genuinely good, solid and stable IDE, very easy to use and very easy to navigate and work with. Then incrementally it started acquiring new functionality that was needed, then the UI changes started coming in, then more functionality, then more UI and also in a cycle it kept amassing additional cruft. It's now a lot more difficult to use, a lot more overbearing. This is kind of where the entire platform is starting to shift, Apple has been forced to jump the platform ahead but it's trying too many clever things and adding more and more functionality at the expense of usability. I still think it's one of the nicer operating systems and I'm not going to be switching anytime soon, but it's definitely not as gloriously user friendly as it used to be. In my opinion, different strokes for different folks after all.