Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?
> We are heading rapidly towards the corollary to “it just works” being “and if it doesn’t, just wipe everything and re-install”.<p>Is this really all that bad? In the era of everything living in the cloud, it generally takes me only a couple hours to setup a system again from scratch. Not that I've ever had to do this on macOS personally (though I did once on iOS), but if I had, I wouldn't be terribly upset about it.<p>> If every time your car had a problem you had to replace its engine, wouldn’t you consider that abysmal engineering?<p>This is a ridiculous analogy. Re-installing an OS is free (both the materials and, for Apple customers who don't know how to do it themselves, the service).<p>macOS today doesn't always just work. I run into bugs sometimes and get frustrated. But whenever I boot up Windows and have to fight to get the most basic dev tools working, or boot up Linux and have to fight to get a core function like system updates or audio working, I'm reminded how much closer macOS still is to "just working" than anything else out there.