Apple has been criticized about this for ages, and I think the criticism is generally a bit more nuanced than you let on: the complaint is that "modern" (post-OSX) Apple often goes way beyond simply showing good judgment and breaking the rules when it helps the interface, and many times strays into simple self-indulgence, making things prettier and shinier at the cost of usability.
[I don't use Apple products enough to say whether this is really true, and as an outside observer, I rather like the pretty-shiny. But that is the criticism.]
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Apple has been criticized about this for ages, and I think the criticism is generally a bit more nuanced than you let on: the complaint is that "modern" (post-OSX) Apple often goes way beyond simply showing good judgment and breaking the rules when it helps the interface, and many times strays into simple self-indulgence, making things prettier and shinier at the cost of usability.
[I don't use Apple products enough to say whether this is really true, and as an outside observer, I rather like the pretty-shiny. But that is the criticism.]