I think so too, but it’s a choice. Apple can choose to focus. I also don’t think Alan Dye is the right person for head of software design.
Just compare the search results for “sleep” on Windows and Mac:
Windows
macOS
How can it be that Microsoft beats Apple?
My frustration is mainly because I love my Mac, but the experience with macOS itself has gotten worse in recent years. And yes, I notice the quality issues on iPadOS too.
And were is the problem on that?
I would expect it to do so, and would be concerned, if it would not update…
Because shen the new iPAd was installing the update, the “Migration Assistant”-like process in the older iPad stopped because it lost Bluetooth/Airplay/whatever connection to the new iPad.
I don’t say that was the right or wrong thing to do --perhaps it would be more useful to first migrate and then let iPadOS update itself regularly-- but of course there was no information of this, or how to trigger the “Migration Assistant” manually after the iPadOS was updated. I only saw that option after a factory reset of the new device.
You could have done it like that
Well to the best of my knowledge that was what I was trying to do. But between steps 5 and 6 the new iPad insisted on downloading a new iPadOS release, the download process took several minutes so the connection between the two iPads stopped after a while. Also I was not made aware of any mechanism to run Quickstart manually (although it seems to exist)
I’ve had similar things happen. I think Apple may have addressed this, but my standard way of dealing with it now is to set the new device up as a new device, update the OS, wipe the device, and set it up with the migration procedure. It’s a pain, but it works.
This is something that has bugged me for a while that I am going to add to this thread, instead of starting a new thread, but the automagical generation of a context for a shipping code or DOI/URL isn’t magical when all you want is the string of numbers and letters and you don’t want the OS to do anything else. In many cases, I just want to copy the number, but this isn’t an option:
It often works for me, if I mark the number with the mouse from the lower right, to the upper left.
I’ve gotten reasonably good at the mouse selection hack, but it’s a hack and sometimes there just isn’t much space to do it within and it’s wonky. Really, I just want a “copy with no link” option.
The OS would not be able to do so, I guess.
Often those companies do not want you to just get the number the easy way. Even often I observe, that the number in the Link is even not the number of the parcel, but there are other numbers added to it.
The OS would unfortunately not be able to make the right guess which part of the link you really need.
It is a Offence, but caused by the Delivery-“Services”.
True, but macOS will also do this with links embedded in PDFs as plain text. It’s trying to be helpful, but sometimes it’s not. Not all the links that are like this are necessarily HTML.
I’ve found some Accessibility settings that help clear things up. In particular the “Display contrast” slider must be all the way to the left. Moving in one smidget to the right leaves lines and smaller font much less clear. Also, I have “Increase contrast” turned on.
My opinion is that the Settings needed improvement, not a complete redo. I’d rather go back to the old Settings interface than have to deal with the new one.
These settings are nice, but my point is that Apple applies bad design. Making it not clear what input fields are and applying it consistently is an example of bad design.
Or perhaps stated differently, it’s great that accessibility settings exist - but the OS defaults should be usable by most users. It shouldn’t require accessibility settings for a non-visually-impaired user to distinguish between input fields. 
What is a “non-visually-impaired user”?
Vision is a very difficult thing, and there is no definition of a “Standard-Viewer”.
On the screenshot, I can clearly distinguish between the fields, AND I have not the same Vision I had some 20-40 years ago!The Settings are there, so every User could find the setting best fitting for him/her, that is also the reason, they are offered at the earliest possible moment when you install the OS.
Yes, that’s what I meant to say 
I’ll grant that accessibility in general is tricky.
But as noted above, I would say that the majority of users shouldn’t need an accessibility affordance in a given area. For things like settings panes, for example, increasing the contrast slightly would make it far less likely that somebody would even need to go looking for the settings to adjust it.
And note that the position I’m taking is not that the vast majority of users shouldn’t need any affordances at all. It’s that Apple’s design should employ existing, known design principles like “using contrast by default to ease identification of elements” so that, in any given area, they would work for the largest possible group of potential users.
I agree, but I wonder if the “Display contrast” slider isn’t just a mistake by Apple. It seems to do just the opposite of what one would expect. Sliding to the right should give more/better contrast, but it seems to produce less contrast, making things harder to see.
Can’t believe in this whole thread not one person has mentioned what is my biggest irritant: that you cannot change the system font size (which in itself wouldn’t be needed if Apple didn’t insist on a tiny font to start with!). If you want to change the font size to something more legible, your only choice for the last couple of MacOS versions is to change your screen resolution. That is not a fix (and why do we have to sacrifice resolution just to have a legible screen??).
There used to be a bit of script you could run in terminal that updated system font size, maybe 10 years ago, but it stopped working a few OS’s ago. There is a third party app that can change system font size (I can’t remember the name of it right now), but it made my fan run constantly so I uninstalled it.
It really shouldn’t be this hard 
The older I get, the more often I find myself holding down the CTRL key and scrolling my trackpad to zoom in and then back out. 
(Im already running 1280 x 800 on a 13-inch MacBook Air).
