Design language

1P_Rob: "... and the reason we have an early access is to get feedback to guide our next step."
I am sorry, but this is not an "Early Access" version! Early access would have been before Linux/Windows, sometime in spring/early summer. But not releasing it the month before the final version will be released - and more or less all GUI and functionality is "written in stone".
For me it seems that you knew that Mac user will complain a lot (as we can see now), but now it is easier to say that the final v8 will be (more or less) as it is now. No chance to go in another (and better) direction.