"Things" is pretty broad.

Thinking of software, probably early "beta" Gmail. There was so much about the email experience that was improved by a stable web client, with what felt at the time like unlimited storage.

Thinking of hardware, I've never been much for Apple products, but the iPhone (particularly early models) is undoubtedly a design marvel.

Things has a really good open-source clone called Planner[0] that I quite like. Now, if only they'd package it some way other than flatpak...

[0] https://github.com/alainm23/planner