alt Hacker NewsRegardless, the point of mentioning it is that Apple commonly makes decisions that can seem bizarre to people who don't consider systemic and longer-term reasons why they might've been made. Another micro-example of this that comes to mind is Tahoe's mostly-reviled chonky window borders, which along with many other gradual UX changes over years, absolutely foreshadow touchscreen Macbooks.
They've also been late sometimes and had to change by force their assumptions, the first app store in iOS was cydia and a lot of what we consider modern iOS design was copied over from the jailbreaking community.