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It’s a real stretch to look to the 1992 human interface guidelines. Long ago apple abandoned human interaction for the purpose of design.
It was amazing while it existed and I am glad for that early work where computers were designed to help people to work.
I think it's valid to look back at past design guidelines and rationale and use that to critique current design.
The current design is more cluttered. Less consistent and requires more prior knowledge.
Both points are valid IMO. Paradigms change, and the ability to accomplish something that wasn't possible in the past due to technical limitations or lack of skill/knowledge shouldn't stop us from doing good things now.
But it's also important to look back at the rationales behind design decisions of the past and really understand why it isn't okay—or actually is okay—to go against those past recommendations.
Having icons in menus does clutter a bit, but it is a real boon to people that can't read or have bad vision, so they can easily find the entry they need.
Unless they are inconsistent or repetitive. As the article points out.
That's the actual issue. There are some people that are led by icomography. i.e. I don't have bad near-sight vision so I won'nt need icons, but I happen to be trying to learn german and set my phone in german, so it's a good clue when things are appropiately labeled with an icon so I don't get lost and still can learn about how something is named in german.
All in all if you don't want all those icons then there should be a setting to hide all but the most important ones - or all icons regardless.
Yeah, OS design has taken quite a plunge over the last few years.
I'm still on Sequoia and have no plans to upgrade. I'm hoping the departure of Alan Dye will result in something not so awful for the next OS. Then I might upgrade.
More clutter is definitely soothing the eyes /s