macOS Needs Its Grid Back

The author argues that macOS has regressed since OS X Leopard (2006), which featured Spaces—a customizable grid of virtual desktops that allowed intuitive spatial navigation using muscle memory. When Apple replaced Spaces with Mission Control's single-row layout in Lion (2011), the author lost this functionality and built an app to restore the grid-based Spaces experience, as alternative solutions proved unreliable or required system modifications.