Tell HN: Rant on macOS Sonoma's annoying typing innovations
For example when typing, if I want to add an emoji mid-sentence, I press the ctrl+cmd+space to trigger the character viewer, then I can start typing the emoji's name to put it. Now the behavior is that it scans my previous word, let's say it's a country name and then it suggests its flag emoji. The problem is that I can't override it without clicking a dropdown so that it opens the old dialog, and there is no option to get the old behavior back.
Same with the new Caps Lock indicator. I can see on the screen that I'm typing in all caps, there is a physical led indicator in the keyboard, so why that indicator onscreen then? And it's a floating popup, it shifts to where the typing cursor is positioned, using the tint color. Not subtle at all and it can't be disabled!