Couple of 1PW 8 for Mac comments

A lot of the Mac ecosystem is turning to trash, as developers prefer for their apps to look and feel the same on the Mac as they do on platforms with worse UI paradigms. It seems like you probably use a lot of apps that don't make any effort to feel like Mac apps.

I ran through the apps in my Dock: Safari, Messages, Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Pages, Numbers, Scrivener. They all have standard Mac preference windows of one sort or another.

I also checked out apps I use at work but not on my home Mac, namely Word, Excel and Outlook. They both have standard Mac preference windows. They are also very good Mac UI citizens despite having a very foreign element, the Ribbon. They have proper, complete menu systems. They have proper preferences windows. They have proper window controls throughout. None of their in-app menus is bound to the height of whatever window is in the forefront.

We also use Teams at work, which is, of course, Electron garbage.

And I also looked at three apps in my "Recently Used" section of my Dock: BBEdit, which has a preferences window that feels a bit like Mac OS 9, but it isn't modal and can be moved around and otherwise feels very native to the Mac; Mela, a brand new recipe management app with a standard Mac preferences window and a stellar interface overall; and Nisus Writer Pro, which has a standard Mac preferences window.

I picked my platform because of the UI, and whether software conforms to the expectations of the UI in no small part determines how likely I am to end up using it.