[esperkin39]

Apple sells good hardware that's buoyed by a loud marketing department that covers its often pathetic software.

Mac users touting a bunch of third-party apps as solutions to obvious os problems (bartender, magnet, amphetamine, etc.) is tacit admission of that fact.

[samatman]

I would argue that in general, third-party apps to customize macOS are an expected part of a healthy ecosystem. I use Karabiner for keyboard customization, Moom for window management, Hidden Bar to hide the menu icons I use infrequently, and that's not a complete list. I don't think any of those need to be part of the core OS, Moom in particular is one of several ways to manage windows, it's the one I prefer but it being built-in to the OS wouldn't help me, or people who like it better some other way.

I don't consider the menu bar notch bug to be part of that general case, though. That's just a long standing bug and it's obnoxious.