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# Fetishizing something most people don't care about
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/fetishizing-something-most-people-dont-care-about/
- Published: 2026-10-04T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-04T13:59:59.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links

Brent Simmons: [That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI](https://inessential.com/2026/09/22/that-about-wraps-it-up-for.html?ref=birchtree.me)

> Users have shown — again, I don’t need to prove this — that they don’t think about a stock Mac app vs. custom. Do they dislike Things for not having a toolbar at the top of the window that they can customize in the usual way? No. (The only people who think that way are longtime Mac developers like me.)