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I upgraded one of my Apple computers (a Macmini3,1) to MacOS 10.7, the other day. Due to other things, I'm only now starting to play with it. I'm only a few minutes in, but there are a few miscellaneous things that bother me, already:

IPv6 privacy extensions (defined in RFC 3041) are enabled, and there's apparently no way to turn them off
The System Preferences GUI no longer provides an option to set the root password (I did it via the shell)
The Bluetooth settings no longer allow the configuration of a device name specific to Bluetooth
The installation is no longer customizable (does everyone really need i18n for every language on the planet?)

Nothing above is a big deal, but it all bothers me. Sometimes it seems like MacOS is dumbing down the population with an overly simplistic computing environment and in the process shunning the adept users. Or, are they just sacrificing flexibility in order to open computing for a broader audience?

What do you think?

For the record, hearing IT or engineering types say they use a Mac "because it just works" is like nails on a chalkboard, to me (mostly because it's proceeded by "I don't care how it works").

Update 2011/08/20: Apparently "sudo sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr=0" does indeed shut off RFC 3041 in MacOS 10.7.1 (it didn't work for me in 10.7.0!). Also, to clarify my last statement, I'm not dissing Apple users, it's more of a commentary on society in general. And, lots and lots of things sound like nails on a chalkboard, to me!

Update 2011/08/21: I'm liking 10.7 less and less the more as I use it. The feature that restores the last state of applications is infuriating! I'm now having to take extra steps to close down all tabs in various applications I use to make sure they don't come up again (or even POST again in a web browser, eck!) on restart. The worst thing about this is some state is remembered incorrectly. My terminal is typically 160x64, but it's always restored with two additional columns. If I keep restarting it, the columns count keeps increasing! Also, 10.7 changed the behavior of display sleep, passwords are now required when the screen turns back on whereas before they were only required when the whole machine went to sleep (standby). Additionally, my mouse pointer randomly disappears when I unlock the system after waking up the monitor, requiring a reboot. Boy, I'm glad I only upgraded one of my machines!