[erling]

IMO Apple has really lost its way in terms of genuinely good UX. The UI might be “pretty” but in terms of actual usability it’s gotten just frustrating at this point. The amount of complexity they require from their users now, memorizing swipe gestures, complex keyboard shortcuts, and strange incarnations is just sad. Good design is simple!

[Tehdasi]

These things have been in Apple ever since the original Macintosh. In that case it was 'one mouse button, so simple'. Except to make the system usable as other systems with multiple button mice, they added a whole load of keyboard shortcuts mimiced how the multibutton mice worked, which ended up being far more complicated than just adding another button to the mouse.

[hhas01]

Citation for that?

I’m fairly sure they got rid of all those other buttons because for the majority of customers they created more confusion than power back then.

Also, speaking as a power user who’s also a southpaw, I’ve got more than a few choice words for many of the multibutton mice I’ve had to use over the years. Apple’s late ADB mice were lovely in the hand and completely unprejudiced.

[snowwrestler]

None of that is required! In fact this article begins with people who are happily using MacOS despite not knowing all the features.

Truly simple design would not have these features at all; that’s where Mac started. The mouse had one button, period. There was no contextual click option at all. And MacOS can still be used productively that way today. Adding power features without disturbing the original usability is strictly positive IMO.

It’s incredibly easy to pick a power feature and demonstrate that some users don’t know it. The more capable a system is, the more likely this becomes. Might as well write an article demonstrating that some users don’t know how to use Terminal, so obviously Mac must have slipped in usability since the original Mac did not have a CLI.

[wackget]

Having visible scrollbars is not a power feature. Crippling a system because you don't want to ruin your "minimalist" aesthetic is always a bad choice.