This is an interesting app in terms of illuminating expectations of different user groups.
Back in 2010 when I got my first MacBook, the app not closing when the window closed was alien to me as someone who had only ever used Windows. But that discomfort only lasted a few months, and I grew to strongly prefer the distinction of “this app is running” and “this app is has a window open” + value the difference between Cmd-Q and Cmd-W.
I remember one OS update made the app closing behavior the default, and I had to go learn where the setting was to undo it; a subsequent OS backtracked on that. The distinction is less meaningful these days with NVME making apps launch much faster than spinning 2.5” drives, but stuff like Photoshop still has a long startup time.
Back in 2010 when I got my first MacBook, the app not closing when the window closed was alien to me as someone who had only ever used Windows. But that discomfort only lasted a few months, and I grew to strongly prefer the distinction of “this app is running” and “this app is has a window open” + value the difference between Cmd-Q and Cmd-W.
I remember one OS update made the app closing behavior the default, and I had to go learn where the setting was to undo it; a subsequent OS backtracked on that. The distinction is less meaningful these days with NVME making apps launch much faster than spinning 2.5” drives, but stuff like Photoshop still has a long startup time.