There was a long time before
That's how it was done since the first window-based operating systems
Yeah, that its such a GREAT argument... where do you draw the line on which user experience changes to keep and which to reject? Should we go back to DOS times as well? Before we had a mouse? What about spaces?
You're picking and choosing based on what YOU deem (un)necessary and what you personally prefer and like. That's arrogant.
Ad I said previously, I've been a Mac user for many years before launchpad was introduced. Yes, I managed. In no small part because at that time I didn't have nearly as many programs I regularly use as now. I was predominantly using the dock.
It's totally fine if you can't or don't want to remember the names of the programs on your own computer—then you just have to orient yourself by little funny icons and search through several pages.
Everyone else uses Spotlight to start programs efficiently, and if you're looking for a program you rarely use, you'll find it faster in a list than on several pages of icons in Launchpad.
You still don't get it. Launchpad does not necessarily mean you have to "search through" "several pages". For one, people using launchpad don't have to "search". We KNOW where things are. It's muscle and visual memory for us. I don't even have to think about it. And secondly, again, it does not have to be PAGES. You can organize things in folders.
Also, launchpad and spotlight never were mutually exclusive. Many of us actually use it complementarily. (And that is despite Spotlight really having become bad over the years from how efficient it used to be, it's become way too cluttered because it's trying to do and want to be too much all at once)
And you still don't get it. You don't like launchpad and prefer Spotlight. That's fine and your prerogative. But, the existence of and use by others of launchpad does exactly nothing to you personally. It does not harm you in any way.
Launchpad is superfluous, as you can also open the Applications folder in Finder in icon view—this gives you a similar view to Launchpad.
Nope. Not the same. Not even close.
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