As a counterpoint to this, as a new Mac user I feel the settings redesign is a night and day improvement. The new settings menu isn’t perfect, but visually I much prefer a two column layout where everything is in a vertical list than a large pile of icons. People also complain about similarity to iOS, but then again, it’s nice that my knowledge of where certain settings are on my phone translates directly over to my laptop. And when that fails, the search works great too, unless Apple named the specific setting something weird, which they do have a tendency towards.