The thing with the original Aqua being over the top in the way it was is that it had previously been next to impossible for any OS to achieve those effects. Mac OS X introduced a first of its kind compositing window server that enabled all those effects. It took Microsoft and X11 years to catch up.
While the transparency, pinstripes, and genie effects all feel gratuitous now they were a flex that put the Mac back at the very top of the technology pile. Sluggish but a brilliant bet on the future.
Guy English
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