Great, "Works on My Machine" award for you. Well done.

All of the things on this website have affected my experience of macOS and iOS for a long, long time.

I definitely go straight to the Gmail website when I need to search for anything on my work account. Yes, I've got it set up to cache all the emails locally indefinitely. Have done for years. Even did so when my workplace used Office 365 instead of Google.

On Hacker News, of all websites, giving yourself the "Works on My Machine" badge is not a worthy contribution. It's dismissive of any experience other than your own.

He had it down as Mail search never works at the time of my comment. Never.

Don’t appreciate the drive by “that’s okay because it doesn’t work for me, btw, works for me is bad”. It’s fallacious. I’m not ignoring your lived experience. I’m calling out slop.

The terrible UI of a straight-forward document separated into distinct blocks, paragraphs and charts that are easily read, that scrolls from from top-to-bottom? Yeah, awful.

I suspect the point was never to win awards for web design, just to put some content on a page.

Aside from all the hardware that doesn't work.

That "which makes it worth sacrificing the ability to run your machine the way you want" is utterly superfluous.

The way I want to run my machine is by running macOS and using its features, app ecosystem, and so on.

Not once have I ever felt I've had to make a sacrifice to do so.

At the risk of sounding repetitive, my comments are in the context of the OP's article which is specifically about a scenario where you lack control in macOS. If you're someone who doesn't care about being able to do what the article wants to do, then your use case doesn't fall within the scope of what I'm referring to.

I have a life and plan to live it, not spend all day configuring my computer to do basic things that macOS does perfectly.

"I've never personally understood" seems to be a lack of imagination.

You did see that they mentioned the Studio Display as well, yes?

I did. But the Studio is also a 5K offering which has also been less specced. Perhaps more comparable but still "less for the same price". So, valid. But yes, I love the XDR, but I wouldn't hold it as a "maybe wait for the XDR 2" (and Studio Display 2) as an alternative to this.

Anybody sufficiently interested would press further, not back away.

If one actually tried to explain to a five year old, they can use things like analogy, simile, metaphor, and other forms of rhetoric. This was just a straight-up technical explanation.