I don’t know. Sure, we may likely never see such a crack team of programmers and designers driven by a radical visionary again. But we do have vastly more computing resources than they had. Can’t we solve some of these problems with software?
Since everyone gave up on native software in favour of web frameworks and the browser, there has been precious little innovation in native UI frameworks.
So my point is: couldn’t most of the attention to detail in Apple’s Classic Mac OS be replicated with a UI framework that understands design concepts such as proportionality, spacing, Schelling points, etc?
It's hard to tell if you're being facetious but the original Mac used bitmap fonts that were hand-designed by drawing individual pixels on a grid. Any sort of "modern ClearType" font would be anti-aliased and therefore not at all like those bitmap fonts.
Since everyone gave up on native software in favour of web frameworks and the browser, there has been precious little innovation in native UI frameworks.
So my point is: couldn’t most of the attention to detail in Apple’s Classic Mac OS be replicated with a UI framework that understands design concepts such as proportionality, spacing, Schelling points, etc?