Sure, NP. Not attacking you at all. Just Apple's hypocrisy.
But all of Apple's UI missteps probably don't compare with the festering rot of glaring incompetence that has destroyed Windows and Office in this millennium alone.
Yes, was very fortunate to ditch windows decades ago. I've heard to latest iterations are atrotious.
And I agree with you about Apple's hypocrisy. They often have one set of rules for themselves that is very different than the set of rules they apply to others.
Atrocious is the word. It's incredible how much time in my day is wasted just hunting for shit in Explorer, scrolling through screen after screen of redundant shadow copies of my user directories... many of which are "prohibited." Or bringing my Explorer windows back to the foreground.
Or trying to make fonts work.
Apps now lack menus and title bars. it's often impossible to tell what app a window belongs to! WTF? Critical functions are now buried under hamburger buttons all over the place.
The File dialog in several apps (notably Office) has been replaced with a bizarre full-page text-based mess, which doesn't show where you are or let you navigate the file system to where you want to be.
> Why are people arguing that icons should be intuitively tell you what the app is about?
I think the answer may be "because Apple's guidelines say so."