I am disappointed that Apple decided to emphasize form over function. Once upon a time, Apple products Just Worked. They were easy to use. You didn't need to read the manual. Updating to the latest version of the OS consistently made things better.
Nowadays the keyboards break. The UI is full of arcane non-discoverable features. Upgrading is a total crap shoot. It might make things better, or it might make things that have been running reliably for years suddenly stop working. And if that happens, it's really hard to go back. (On an iOS device it is usually impossible.)
The competition is even worse. No one makes a computer that Just Works any more. And that makes me sad.
Catalina broke some big applications for me. Microsoft has put a lot of work into making things compatible to almost absurd levels (Windows 95 is still an option on running apps)
I’d rather break apps. I’m glad Apple does that. It’s not the platform for backward compatibility. Also, Windows is just a telemetry/Ad platform now. That’s not very appealing.
People said that about whatever the one before Catalina is called but it’s been great for me. Only problem I experienced was drag/drop from Chrome anymore for some reason. Works from other browsers.
They still just work. Those arcane non-discoverable features aren't usually needed to do typical things. At least not the things you did back in the day when things just worked. If you liked your iPad from 5 years ago and buy the new one, you can mostly just keep using it the way you always have.
The keyboard fiasco was pretty bad though. Hopefully that's coming to an end.
Nowadays the keyboards break. The UI is full of arcane non-discoverable features. Upgrading is a total crap shoot. It might make things better, or it might make things that have been running reliably for years suddenly stop working. And if that happens, it's really hard to go back. (On an iOS device it is usually impossible.)
The competition is even worse. No one makes a computer that Just Works any more. And that makes me sad.