I remember quite a lot of complaints about those Office changes, or different styles that came from using Borland C++, Delphi or even cross-platform tools. If you were doing commercial development, that mattered. End users don't exactly complain about specifics, they just ditched your program because it was "odd".
Let's not even mention Unix.
But yeah, Mac OS users were particularly obnoxious there, as usual.
> End users don't exactly complain about specifics, they just ditched your program because it was "odd".
Except that they don't. If that were true then we would see a lot more consistency in desktop app styles.
The typical desktop computer experience hasn't been visually consistent since the mid 90's. Most young people have never used a computer where most of the apps had the same style.
Let's not even mention Unix.
But yeah, Mac OS users were particularly obnoxious there, as usual.