Couple of 1PW 8 for Mac comments

@KirkMcPike @FCNV

I think it is time we accept the fact that the ship of 1Password 8 has sailed. The weird choice of design and glaring inconsistencies will remain, as they are consistently being defended by the team. Even the close button on the top right of preferences menu. The responses mentioning why the team hasn't felt what we are feeling, are outright hilarious and deeply saddening.

There are companies that will do as much as possible for their users (Apple) at great costs to themselves (Privacy policy instead of ad revenue) --- a user oriented policy mingled with business. And those that will sacrifice anything in the name of soon to arrive features and apparent efficiency improvements to reduce the amount of work needed to maintain great apps --- a business oriented policy throwing in some individual users.

In order to move forward, changes are necessary. Sometimes disruptive changes. However, if all they bring are regressions in terms of features, performance and design and hopes of some ground breaking features, none of which are apparent right now, is the unveiling of a whole new system even worth it?

Regardless, every other major password manager has already gone down this path: Lastpass, Bitwarden, Dashlane(partially). I went through all of them and landed on 1Password for 2 reasons: (1) It was the best designed and most consistent app and (2) yes, 1Password was the most functional with the most useful features. Ironic.

Agreed on the point that there was probably design and feature parities among the different platforms. However, 1Password had been the go to password manager for Apple ecosystem. It felt like they were the unofficial collaborator of Apple who worked together to create the best damn security software for the ecosystem. To see them ditch that just changes everything.
And people wonder why Apple exercises such strict policies on the App Store. It's to prevent it from becoming Play Store.

1Password is now officially in that group of softwares whose name you search on the internet just to compare its price with the others and base all your decisions on that. They are no longer special in any way.

I don't hate 1Password or the team creating it. I know all too well how much effort it takes to develop an application like this. The simple fact that I'm spending the time to write this up in here, goes to show that I still do care. And I'll wait a year to see what features they bring in exchange for an app design that looks like some futuristic version of TETRIS. But I simply did not expect 1Password team members coming up and defending every single choice they have made. Not responding probably would have been a better way to go, under some circumstances.

Anyway, if 1Password thinks it's best to do what serves their needs and benefits their business, I think it's only fair that we do the same. Only a matter of time before Apple puts keychain on steroids. Until then, a few other placeholders come to mind that cost less and do the same thing.

The most unfortunate part? I just got to using 1Password 7 on my Mac and iPhone. 2 weeks later, there was 1Password 8. Some timing.

PS: I do not expect 1Password to change the whole design and its probably not needed either. But if they don't fix the inconsistencies, I won't be taking the pain that comes with using the app as it is today. You have 1 Year. I do hope you figure things out and win us back.