Software Engineers need to be beaten with reeds any time they suggest or attempt to implement any alterations to user workflow.
Remember the Microsoft "ribbon" fiasco? The same deflated kumquat who suggested that nonsense was also the bright light who thought getting rid of the Start Menu in Win8 was a good idea. (MS then relegated her to "Style Coordination" which is a nice way of saying they locked her in an office and let her only pick colors.)
Safari was already a cast iron b*tch to use because it's totally unintuitive. A box with an arrow coming out of it is where I save my bookmarks? Wouldn't that be a "share" icon? Speaking of that, I saved to the wrong directory, how do I move them? Where are all the menus?
It's so bad that I use Chrome on my iPad and only use Safari for reading webcomics. That's a wonderfully well done browser, there, when the only use to which it can be put is to
read comic books online.
Seriously. I am not a developer and don't have a clue what goes into software development, but once you release a user interface,
leave it the f*ck alone! Every person using your software has developed a particular workflow that saves them time and energy.
Making changes to that does nothing but antagonize them. You are not making anything more efficient.
You are only pissing off the people who pay your bills.
Of course, Apple is always more concerned with making unnecessary changes rather than
fixing crap that is broken. This allows them to pretend to be innovative when they haven't had a new idea since Jobs died.
Oh, FYI, I have an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and an iPad Mini 4. I'm not an Apple hater just 'because', but because
I've had consistent problems with them.
One thing I adore about Calibre is that Kovid hasn't changed the interface at all since the day I started using it, even though I literally have a new update every time I start the software. That's the mark of a great developer. The interface is
fine, and he knows it, so he's quashing bugs and adding features people actually
ask for instead of ones he thinks we
might want.
And that's why I support him on Patreon and won't be buying Apple again.