Comment Re: No Posts (Score 1) 101
The UX guys will say the new UI is more intuitive. Sure, but it needs to stick around for a decade before the old conflicting stuff works itself out of the user base.
My added emphasis to your text. You're arguing for basically what happened, at least with Windows. Windows 7 introduced the search concept but kept the old Start Menu structure. Windows 10 obfuscated it a bit more but it was still there. It's only in Windows 11 that it really went away and went away is relative because it's STILL THERE, if you care to dig deep enough to find it, but in the day to day why would you have to?
It's just "finger memory".
I call it "muscle memory" and it's not like you can't still take advantage of it. Programs I use in the day to day are pinned to the task bar / dock regardless of the OS I'm working with. I'm not using Spotlight to launch Chrome or Excel. If it's not something I use in the day to day, muscle memory isn't going to be terribly useful for finding it, and that's what search is helpful for. Neither OS requires you to remember the full name of whatever program you're looking for. The first letter will get you there more often than not. Our access control system is managed by this crappy user space application whose name I can't be bothered to remember, I only use it once a month or so, but I know it starts with an 'E' and that's enough to find it with search.
Look, this is very much an IT Guy complaint in my experience. Over the years, I've transitioned thousands of end users to newer versions of Windows and macOS where search displaced the traditional means of navigation. Nearly all rapidly adapted and were happy with the outcome. The few outliers weren't exactly slaying productivity on the older OS versions. The people I've heard the strongest bitching about it from are all IT peers/colleagues.