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The "Delete, Cancel, Save" is when you close a new document without having saved it. In your scenario, it's basically saving as it goes. The document will just close, without a dialog, but your changes will be saved.

macOS is trying to do away with the concept of "unsaved changes" altogether.

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Thanks, that makes sense then for that dialog. Doesn't seem as bad as the author makes it out to be. But in general, I'm not really a fan of this implicit saving stuff, but maybe I'm just getting old and unable to adapt. :)

As a long-time Mac user (long enough to remember OpenDoc!) I massively dislike it. It’s becoming difficult to open a document without accidentally making some trivial change, which is then auto-saved. If the doc happens to be in Dropbox, you see the change notification and wonder, what did I do?? I just wanted to look at it!

The big problem is that it's very inconsistent across the OS. Only certain apps adhere to auto-saving (and thereby this modal).

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