Rui Carmo
This is a very well written, exquisitely detailed teardown of Apple’s decision to sprinkle tiny SF Symbols through menus in macOS Tahoe, and why it makes everything harder to scan, less consistent, and (sometimes) actively misleading.
Bruce Tognazzini (whose book I still pull out once in a while to remind myself of good UI design principles) would be proud.
Somehow I sort of tuned them out during last year’s rant about Liquid Glass, but they really do make a difference. I started actively noticing them in menus when my own little apps started sprouting some of them (apparently automatically) and thinking “why is that there?” or “what does that even mean?” and 90% of the time the icon is just not helping me at all, even in Apple’s own apps.