its very odd that apparently everyone working in Apple software dev either refuses to dogfood this stuff or just uses iPads for everything.
Ironically that would be a new kind of dogfooding.
It would not matter if they dogfooded it, the decision makers higher up in the chain are getting paid more to make a visible change and/or increase revenue, not to make a better user experience.
So many of the rough edges disappear when "Reduce Transparency" is enabled I've theorized that setting must be pretty popular around Apple's offices.