My biggest peeve with macOS Tahoe is the App Launcher redesign.
It seems like a clear regression in usability. By moving from a high-density, full-screen experience to a constrained, scrolling window, they’ve increased the interaction cost for launching apps via the mouse. It feels like a 'unification tax. Sacrificing desktop utility to align with non-Desktop modalilties. Does anyone see a functional upside here, or is this purely aesthetic consistency?
The removal of Launchpad was an inexplicable blunder. The OS now provides no way to organize your applications.
Why would I want my dev tools, audio apps, 3-D-modeling apps, and office apps all jumbled together?
It's as if Apple is trying to catch up to Microsoft in the race to regress.
You can still make subdirectories in /Applications.
This is not reliable; it messes up some applications.
I don't know why it's so laggy when you open it. First time you open and scroll it jitters and not all app icons are loaded, so they kind of chunk and overlap.
You get worse icon pop-in if you add your app folder with grid view to the dock. These aren't stored on the network, so it's baffling they take so long to load the icons.
Maybe they didn't want people seeing their awful new icons at large enough sizes that the seams would be showing...
I was shocked when I first hit this. I'm also confused as to why the settings app constrains the window size but I think it did that in the previous version too - not a justification!
I complained about it to a team mate and he thought it was fine and I was weird for using the app launcher and not cmd-space. Although on Windows I always use win-r to run stuff.
Tahoe UI changes and LG are such a mistake and Apple being Apple will probably just double down on it.
It’s consistency with the rest of Spotlight. I imagine they want to enhance it, but getting people to use it might be the first step.
Yep. I hate it. Its easier to open the Finder and use the shortcut to open the application folder.