macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
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- macOS 27 Golden Gate is positioned as a refinement-focused release like Snow Leopard, promising performance and stability improvements over last year's Tahoe.
- The author found many alignment and UI centering bugs in daily use, including QuickTime, window tiling icons, text, and System Settings headings.
- Some elements appear forgotten, such as outdated Mac User Guide content, old Siri logo in Touch Bar settings, inconsistent Network app icons, and mismatched window controls in Mission Control.
- Several functional bugs exist: menu bar architecture changes break third-party apps, moving a camera icon can crash the menu bar, System Settings search sometimes fails, arrow-key navigation in search results is broken, and links become unclickable quickly.
- Other issues include non-functional buttons, slow volume slider auto-hide, lingering NeXTSTEP references, miscalculated window sizes, disappearing window controls, and broken tiling behavior.
- The author lists nitpicks like inconsistent Touch Bar icons, a wrongly shaped camera lens, missing hover feedback, and unintuitive Dock folder behavior.
- The conclusion argues that finding bugs this easily contradicts Apple's promise of thorough refinement, though Golden Gate might improve with more time like Snow Leopard did.