Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

After my blood pressure dropped to healthier levels I got the strangest feeling of di(C)ji vu. This felt exactly like using Linux in the early 2000s. Things break at random for reasons you can't understand and the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best. Then it hit me. This was not an isolated incidence. The parallels are everywhere. I certainly wouldn't go that far, but there's definitely a kernel of truth to the perception that macOS just doesn't feel as polished and effortless as it once was, during the Leopard days.