eleven9

I would have to agree with this concern. Aside from gaming, I don't see a use for a product like this. I have tried VR headsets. They're nice, but I don't see a need for one. For gaming I will stick with my Xbox. I don't play games on my iPhone very often. Apple talked bout VR in 2017 when the iMac Pro was announced, but there hasn't been much from Apple on in that area since then. I have been wrong about rumored Apple products a couple of times before so I will keep an open mind until I see the product announced. One barrier to widespread adoption is often its price. The original iPod suffered from that problem, but Apple lowered its price pretty quickly, and then released more models to give us more choices. iPod was released right when we started wanting to take our digital music with us everywhere we went. That's why it was a huge hit.

darkvader said:

1.  It's still ugly.  Mac OS 11 was awful, this doesn't even begin to fix the worst of that.  No surprise, Apple's been going steadily downhill since 10.6.

2.  I've been running it on test machines for months.  It seemed stable-ish, though of course Apple still can't figure out how to write a working email client - not that Apple is unique in that, nobody has been able to write a good one since Eudora, and even that got bad in its last few releases.

3.  The new 'features' are all a big yawn for me - or at least they are now, once I got that infuriating 'new note' hot corner insanity turned off.

4.  We still don't have any definitive word that the spyware Apple built in is turned off permanently.

If you hate what Apple is doing this much, why do you bother at all? I thought Snow Leopard was great, especially the server version, but I don't think Apple's OS tech is going down hill. I have used every Mac OS version since System 3 on a Macintosh Plus, so I can speak from long time experience.

Good! I don’t want a redesign. 

I don't agree that Big Sur is "gaudy". I did think that Panther's brushed metal look was a bit over the top. I was glad when OS X Leopard switched to a smooth metallic look for Finder. The skeuomorphic graphics found in Mountain Lion were gaudy. I like every macOS version since Mac OS X 10.0 has looked great despite the specific points I just made about some past versions.