macOS Golden Gate is a buggy mess

Many people have suggested that macOS 27 Golden Gate is a “Snow Leopard” release. I never believed that for a second. I’ve argued many times that the perception of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as a bug fix release is a myth. Every major OS update introduces more bugs than it fixes, and the software quality of Snow Leopard that people now remember fondly was achieved only after nearly two years of minor bug fix updates. Moreover, 10.6.0 itself arrived nearly two years after 10.5.0. Nowadays Apple releases major OS updates on a strict yearly schedule, which piles on the new bugs while leaving too little time for fixing old bugs. I’ve personally encountered a significant number of new bugs in Golden Gate, though I can’t list them all here, because I’m not bothering to track them. Apple Feedback Assistant is sadly a black hole that I’m currently boycotting. Two months ago I blogged about some issues with the new App Running in Background notifications that I discovered as early as June and…