What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail?

Summary

Apps like Calendar, Activity Monitor and TV show tabs in the header or title bar, each with a different tab design.By now you must be rightfully thinking "but John these are all old screenshots, updates to Mac OS X and iOS must have addressed these issues... right?", dear reader allow me to introduce you to the UI/UX hell that is Mac OS 26 and iOS 26 that not only did not fix these issues, but introduced much worse design choices.Don't believe me? Take a look at the Search Bar (if one can still call it that) in FinderI dare say, wouldn't it be rather logical to expect that an app called 'Finder'—whose entire existence hinges upon the concept of finding things—might offer a search bar that doesn't require a bloody archaeology degree to unearth? Apparently not.But first, let's talk about iOS 26, because it's a proper dumpster fire.Files appHere's the iOS 26 Files app in dark mode, and light mode side by side. Notice anything missing? Like the folder name or the barely visible down arrow? It's almost as if they haven't tested iOS 26 in dark mode at all.Share sheetImmediately after updating to iOS 26, I took screen captures of all the broken things, and wanted to share them with a bunch of friends to warn them not to update. I pressed share, and this is what the app icons in the share sheet looked like : Already off to a great start, I thought perhaps enabling / disabling the "reduced transparency" accessibility mode would solve things — just in case if liquid glass itself is the issue. SettingsSo I fired up Settings to disable transparency, and none of the icons showed up there at first.Feeling frustrated beyond measure, I enabled "reduced transparency" mode, which fixed the icons but broke other things even further. See the black bar at the bottom behind the search bubble? Not a huge deal when you have a massive search bar at the bottom of the screen, but it's still fugly. I thought I'd add this to my running list in the reminders app as well. So then I fired up remin...