Sensible comments once the underlying animus is removed. I have a high regard for your comments generally, and you've certainly been a big help to me on a few occasions, more so than most. Not this one though.
I don't resent new versions of Macos, I resent the baubles that Apple seem to think make them upgrades - there's a difference. In general, the more meaningful upgrades you refer to seem to me to be just tweaks for the sake of tweaking for the sake of bragging about upgrades and employing existing staff rather than revealing their hand and sacking them. but each to his own.
As to the emojis, pardon me for paying attention to what Apple says are upgrades in this regard, but which are in fact just baubles for the brain-dead. Sorry, but I just can't buy into another handful of emojis being anything significant, whether or not they make one's messages (as I've seen some say) more meaningful, and if they were serious about upgrading MACOS (which I don't think they have been for some time) then they would publicise the real upgrades and improvements along the lines of what you refer to, rather than selling hardware downgrades and pretending they're really hardware upgrades, because the yuppies are already nudging their Peter-principle ceiling.They're just pictures for the yo-yo-innit gangsta-loving generation which seems to be what Apple is most interested in selling to these days, and for whom the number of emojis they use in a message appears to me to directly reflect their IQ. Hackintoshing for me has simply been a response to the declining service and increasing yuppie-factor, and in 2 years, I think Hackintoshing as we know it will be dead and gone as Apple invents and uses it's own chips, and IoS bit -by-bit comes to rule the roost. Intel chips and (what is, as I understand it) the linux-based Macos are pretty much doomed to a terminal decline as Apple focuses on price-gouging in services rather than technology. If in doubt, then closely reading the Apple-orientated sites is useful, paid-for or not, though I expect many of them are.
Acknowledging all you say, I've been an Apple-ite for 15 years, and will probably remain an Apple-ite until I no longer draw useful breaths. Doesn't make me a fan of baubles and bling though. I strongly suspect that within 2 years, Apple will be well on the way further down the slippery slope. I think I stand with Jony Ive on this one. Apple used to be a marvellous innovator, but is now much better at price-gouging then innovating (my interpretation, not his words), and the world seems to be is catching on to this a lot faster than I thought it would. Anyone who's been watching their product line and sales figures must have an uneasy feeling in the pit of their stomach about what Cookie and his gang are really up to.
Might be wrong though..
, I've been wrong before.