You'd think they'd go the other direction and remove the text.

I installed VLC on my phone, and I couldn't figure anything out, because it was covered in vague post-skeuomorphic icons without text.

I’m still on Sequoia because of all the Tahoe complaints. Not so much the rounded corners, but I heard performance was poor. Have updates to Tahoe improved things?

Aw. I may have been the only one, but I kind of liked those.

good - I have resorted to a config setting to suppress these bad icons on Tahoe

This is also what's annoying with most model generated artifacts. They want every bullet point with an emoji. Even worse is an HTML artifact will be littered with chips/pill style "informative" boxes. So much useless distraction. I need something fine tuned by Tufte

"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars"

Meh - these icons were bad, but I don't see the disaster

who uses MacOS on Apple hardware?