In general it feels like a lot of UI design these days is optimizing for looking pretty in screenshots and photos rather than being useful as a tool, it's honestly gotten really frustrating in recent years.
A month or so ago, a screenshot of Snow-Leopad-era OS X standard UI controls made the rounds on the fediverse. One forgets so fast with incremental change, but when you take it in with some distance, it’s truly devastating how things have regressed since that time.
The Apple folk and adjacent circles like to throw around how “design is how it works™”, but design hasn’t been how it works in Macos for a while (and it’s not better anywhere else).
