El Capitan has seriously made me consider if my next computer should be something other than a Mac. While I do like if to "normal" computing, such as browsing, word processing and browsing, I think it's getting increasingly worse as a development platform.
Yes, iTunes is a huge mess, and there aren't any good alternatives which support iPod syncing. El Capitan isn't the bug-fix version it should have been, it's an eye candy release the introduces subtle annoyances.