Due to an extremely weird series of troubleshooting manoeuvres, I recently found myself having to set my Mac up from scratch without migrating any of my preferences for the first time in longer than I’d like to admit. Think decades, not years.
This meant I had to experience every single Apple software default, enter license numbers into software not bought in the Mac App Store, and generally need to remake every decision that I had taken over the past few years in order to get back where I wanted to be.
More than anything else, though, the experience reminded me that Apple has a lot of work to do when it comes to making the experience of upgrading or migrating to a new Mac more pleasant – and that its Security and Privacy team clearly has too much say in the overall macOS experience.
