I’m with you on the UI of iTunes and Photos.
iTunes is now oriented entirely to you subscribing to their miserable music service. I can never find the miniscule controls to play my own music. I pretty much gave us and use Picky now.
They really dumbed down Photos and screwed the pooch killing Aperture.
I’ve used Macs since 1984 (my wife managed software licensing at Apple then). For the first time, I’m using one in a business environment instead of a PC and I’m finding LOTS of buggy little things that really inhibit getting work done quickly. Not the least of which is the horrible state of mail apps on Macs.
They are not perfect by any means. But it is extremely stable, virus free, and has a nice UI for the OS which I prefer to Windows.