It’s non intrusive and neat to look at. There are some decisions that are annoying, like a hidden button that takes an extra click now, but it’s also something I spend such a small amount of time interacting with that spending any time fretting over it seems like a wasteful overreaction.
That said, I empathize with your frustration, and I have plenty of things that trigger me into passionate “overreaction”, so I totally get it… and things like “more battery consumption” are objectively bad.
Hopefully my experience will be similar with macOS once I try it out though.
Also in IOS 26 fonts are bigger for some reason (Large Text is Off on both), it can be reduced (using Large Text slider) but interval between lines and UI block is still bigger than in 18.
Settings waste even more space because of less dense design, and the same spacing problem is in most (all) applications.
Compare to macOS 15 which exactly one year ago had 50% of the market share.
Obviously, it is just a subset. But the drop from 40 to 30% is pretty significant even for that subset. (Based on https://telemetrydeck.com/platforms/swift/ - 6,280 apps use it, but that includes macOS and iOS apps)
PS. I am a macOS indie app developer, but I personally do not use TelemetryDeck and I am not in any way related to them. Just found this data being really interesting, so decided to share.
