You're probably correct, though subjectively I didn't start feeling like something was amiss until Mac OS 9, perhaps as early as 8.5. I think OS X, as the chil

You're probably correct, though subjectively I didn't start feeling like something was amiss until Mac OS 9, perhaps as early as 8.5. I think OS X, as the child of NeXTSTEP and Mac OS, ended up somehow less than the sum of its parts.