I understand how this works, but it's not better, especially not for multi monitor setups. Or, something even less likely to happen: imagine if you could move your mouse by searching across the corpus of text visibly on-screen (presumably via interaction with the OS text-rendering layer), such that you could jump the cursor to a specific button or even to the checkbox with a specific label. Once you've narrowed it down to one window, press Enter and that window will pop to the foreground-perhaps with that text pre-selected as if you had done a Cmd+F search within the app. While I'm dreaming, imagine if you could go into Mission Control and start typing, and it'd highlight/focus the set of windows that 'have' the text you're looking for (even if not necessarily scrolled into their viewport.) Like the search you can do in Safari's 'tab overview' by pressing Cmd+F there, but across all windows of all apps. Personally, if I were designing it, I wouldn't have exposed it as a separate bar in the Help menu of the app but rather just made it an API provider to the OS (sort of like how drag-and-drop data sources work), such that the OS search (Spotlight) could be made a 'universal' search, capable of searching both the OS generally, and the currently-focused application specifically. something people would think to look for when they need it, if they hadn't used it before.)

It’s a nice feature a shame that it’s not discoverable (i.e. Of course, I'd like to know how something like this can be done faster using the keyboard. * Navigate from one tab to another within the settings * Open the Keyboard settings (just an example) If you disagree with my assessment, please try this using only the keyboard (no mouse or trackpad) and see how cumbersome it is (not to mention inconsistent in certain ways with the rest of the system too): When I find these instances, for me it's like death by a thousand paper cuts (note: I do have preferences set to navigate through all controls when hitting Tab). There are many UI controls (including in dialogs) that just need a mouse or keyboard. There are many Apple apps that cannot be completely controlled just using the keyboard either. The same on a Mac would be frustrating because keyboard navigation, especially for menus, is cumbersome. On Windows (and mostly in Linux too), I can navigate the entire system, application menus and UI controls without touching the mouse or trackpad, relying only on the keyboard.

In my experience of using macOS/OS X/Mac OS X as well as Windows and Linux, macOS is one OS where a user cannot avoid using the mouse or trackpad! I agree with your other points (including easier customizability), but have to completely disagree with this quoted sentence. It's shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems.

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