Despite the polarizing visual facelift, the actual machinery under the hood introduced concepts we still rely on today:

: Who could forget the controversial decision to make top-level menus (FILE, EDIT, VIEW) strictly uppercase? It was a bold design choice that provoked endless forum debates. 🚀 Architectural Pillars Packed in the Zip

If you were coding in 2012, running the executable inside that zip file introduced you to a massive shock: the sudden death of color.