[UIZealot]

> Tabs that look like real-world tabs aren’t just a decorative style. They’re a visual metaphor. My brain likes visual metaphors. It craves them.

As the preeminent Apple commentator at the time, Gruber said nothing when iOS 7 dumped rich visual metaphors for a barren flatness.

So waxing poetic now about one minor change in one app is just comical.

Realistically, this specific change, from tabs to buttons, is not that big of a deal.

He's simply delusional if he thinks the tabs before Safari 15 looked like tabs, or that the active tab was unambiguous.

Apple is just polishing a turd, how much damage could it have done?