> At least Microsoft haven't fallen so low as to fail basic design principles like having transparent on top of transparent buttons

That's just because Microsoft has been there done that already 2 decades ago ;) (IIRC in Windows Vista).

Same with the fine-grained in-your-face permission popups. Introduced by Microsoft in Vista, copied by Apple in Mojave ;)

One more reason for Apple to actually have delivered it properly, given that they had Microsoft's failures to learn from.

Not really, Apple permission prompts aren't different enough. It's just a random prompt to put in your password, with limited information why.

The Windows ones look very different, dim the rest of the screen, and have more info.

Apple's bad ideas look ugly. Microsoft's bad ideas lock you out of your computer, delete your files and give the undeleted files to the FBI.

Having a mandatory sign-in prompt when opening Notepad and two context menus is way worse than anything Apple did in Tahoe.

> At least Microsoft haven't fallen so low as to fail basic design principles like having transparent on top of transparent buttons,

They did that but made it work well all the way back with Windows 7, maybe even Vista.