Ironically, I kind of liked the icons in the menus.

But at the end of the day, it was like Liquid Glass itself - looks sick in presentations, but in real life, it looks pretty awful.

I like icons

When the Mac UI took over (some of) the world, many thought it was because of the icons, so they put icons all over their UIs.

That was of course not at all what made the MacOS so usable. The real principles were explained in detail in Apples UI guidelines. But hardly anyone read those, so the icons have been with us for 30 years.

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