The key point in this Twitter rant is that the SWEs who understood the Mac (and NEXTSTEP, for that matter) have aged out. Most everyone has retired or moved onto other opportunities. There's very few of them left at Apple. And they're often overruled by younger managers.
Apple is hiring tons of fresh new SWEs who have no understanding, nor desire to understand "The Mac Way".
I'm not saying this is right or wrong, the world needs to move on, but it's a punch to my nostalgic gut.
If you're hanging onto the Mac out of some belief that Apple will re-find their way WRT macOS, don't. That train left the station years ago. It's past time to move on.
Jobs was against dogma. It’s a changing world and the perspective and input of the young is valuable.
What exactly are you moving on to? Ubuntu? Windows?
Behind macOS is the most valuable company in the world adding fixes, features and security patches. There isn’t any other computing solution today that can deliver what Apple does.
I don't use a single Apple product. What am I missing?
Remember 2000-2005 Microsoft that tried to lock you into Internet Explorer and was deeply into this thing called "trusted computing"?
That's what you're missing.
You're required to sign in for updates so they can track you. No software patches without monitoring, I guess.
No way to remove iTunes or stop Safari from trying to take over again and again. Even if you don't want music to open that way.
Steve Balmer would be proud.
Remember 2005-8 when you tried Ubuntu for the first time and were wowed with Compiz Fusion compared to the drab Windows XP/Vista/etc window management?
That's the feeling you get every time you step away from MacOs finder and the atrocious Mac window manager.
You shouldn't need a 3rd party plugin to manage window placement. It shouldn't be difficult to navigate to a directory via a path or run a program or have the file browser automatically resize its icon view. But that's Mac.
This hasn't been my experience. macOS still incessantly bothers you about OS updates even if you decline signing into an Apple account during first-boot, and you can download major release updaters independently from the Mac Store (e.g. using the script from OSX-KVM).