An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software
They are 100% correct about the spatial Finder; 15 years later and what the current OS has is still laughable compared to some of the gems of the Classic Finder.  A few years back Steve Jobs had the audacity to describe some Cocoa rewrite as a “whole new Finder” and I got excited only to realize it was still garbage.  You sort of have to experience the Classic Finder to understand just how wrong the modern Finder really is.  From small details (like EVERY window remembering <i>exactly</i> how you arranged it) to not having to wonder what will happen when you click something, not to mention the pop-up tab windows from 8.5+.<p>Also, to this day I don’t quite understand why Apple went so far away from Platinum.  Today’s toolbar icons and buttons are downright <i>ugly</i> compared to the UI that was achieved with far fewer colors on Classic Macs.  They “almost” had it when 10.5 Leopard managed to unify most of the OS and apps but then they started fiddling again.<p>While I do like the “vibrancy” effect in parts of the current OS, even that is overdone (scrolling under toolbars, really?).  It would have been better to combine the vibrancy technology with more professional user interface elements reminiscent of Classic.