macOS’s ancient problems still exist in 2022
This is a poor UX critique.<p>Those problems &quot;still exist in 2019&quot;. Not in 2022. You&#x27;re running macOS Catalina. (Actually, they don&#x27;t &quot;still exist in 2019&quot; either).<p>Yes, files auto-arrange. cmd+J, Sort by: Name, Use as defaults.<p>Informational redundancy? You went out of your way to activate Show All Tabs which shows the Finder tab bar even with just one tab open, and Show Path Bar which is behaving as expected. Somehow merging the window title &amp; path bar would prevent dragging the window around easily, since the path bar gives you proxy icons you can drag around. And seeing the same folder name in the title bar and the sidebar is good UX. Windows 11 File Explorer has the exact same amount of &quot;repetition&quot;, except for tabs which it doesn&#x27;t support.<p>Cut and paste is bad for file managers since it requires the file to &quot;disappears&quot; until you paste it. Copy a piece of text off a web page and you&#x27;ve got data loss. And &quot;option&quot; now shows &quot;Copies as Pathname&quot;, which is more useful on a UNIX OS than &quot;Move&quot; when you can just drag and drop.<p>&quot;Open Finder twice&quot; is expected behavior. When an app is open but with no open windows, opening the app again opens a window. This reduces user confusion since it works the exact same as Windows, and is very useful for 3rd party menu-bar-only utilities where you can open their main window (often the settings window) with a half-second Spotlight search.<p>&quot;Enter&quot; is the most natural choice for renaming since it&#x27;s an extremely common operation (cmd+R would require 2 key presses) and F2 is used for brightness. Note that modern Windows boxes also put brightness controls on F2, so you need to twist your hand awkwardly to press fn+F2 to rename anything.<p>The Green button isn&#x27;t called maximize for a reason. It&#x27;s meant to show the full document and no more, and is quite useful for Amethyst-without-Amethyst. Hide the &quot;Format and style&quot; sidebar in Pages, and you end up with a huge border around your document. Double tap empty space in the toolbar and the window shrinks to fit the document. Open a Finder folder with 2 lines of files and double tap, the window shrinks to being tall enough to only show those lines, no more. That&#x27;s useful and works as expected.<p>Apple&#x27;s documentation doesn&#x27;t say Touch ID doesn&#x27;t put the Mac to sleep. It says it doesn&#x27;t do so if you press it 1.5 seconds. It does it immediately.