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@jvb Oh whoa! That's really neat. Thank you! :D

I know the Creator Studio icons are all abstract nonsense and I don't know that I would even call Keynote the worst—you can at least still tell what it's supposed to be, unlike MainStage or Pixelmator Pro. But it's just so fundamentally lazy and careless, especially for what's supposed to be a luxury/professional brand.

While I'm here, can we just look at the Keynote icons for a second?

The oldest is clearly a lectern. The ionic column feels a bit weird, but you can easily imagine an object like this existing, and an image search for "wooden lectern" turns up some similar-ish real-world things.

The second is also clearly a lectern. Much more modern, perspective and proportions a bit off, and it's stuck in a blue squircle void, but again: real-ish.

The third is… a holographic blue cafeteria table? IDEK.

@ChrisPirillo Oh, I also thought flat design was a wrong move, and still do. But at least it was more or less functional, and there was a design argument to be made for it.

Liquid Glass and the accompanying carelessness is just inexcusable.

So I was looking at the Creator Studio icons again—don't ask why—and suddenly I noticed something. But no. Surely it couldn't be.

But it is. The Keynote icon went from a six-part pie chart to a two-part pie chart, and they managed to off-center the chart's centerline in the process. 🙃

It's a good thing quality design and attention to detail aren't Apple's entire brand, or this might be kind of embarrassing.