If you actually read the specific bug and use of a private method it really was a stupid decision by one developer awhile ago that just fell through the cracks. There really wasn't a benefit to doing what they did, which is why their fix was to just go back to using public APIs.
I think the failures here are that Apple should have tested this themselves and the Electron devs should have tested and resolved this during the beta period.
> If you actually read the specific bug and use of a private method it really was a stupid decision by one developer awhile ago that just fell through the cracks. There really wasn't a benefit to doing what they did, which is why their fix was to just go back to using public APIs.
I don't think it's that clear cut. It looks like it was a workaround for a MacOS rendering bug going back to at least 2017, landed in 2019 and had no apparent downsides for six years[1].
The PR removing the private API code also included someone verifying that Apple had fixed the original bug some time in the intervening years[2].
I probably wouldn't have taken this approach personally (at the very least file the original rendering issue with Apple and note it with the code, though everyone knows the likelihood of getting a even a response on an issue like that), but it wasn't some cargo culted fix.
This only made Apple look bad, again this is not a bug that make the app slow, it makes the whole system slow.
Imagine now that you're a non tech savvy user, that probably doesn't update apps as often, they are probably wondering why "my laptop is so slow after updating". But like I said in other thread, maybe this is on purpose to make people upgrade.
I don't think they care, they'll pass the blame to 3rd party app devs. They care more about forcing users and devs to interact with their products how Apple wants them too. They have a long track record of this behavior
I think the failures here are that Apple should have tested this themselves and the Electron devs should have tested and resolved this during the beta period.