But sadly I find Apple's attention to detail in its UX to be typically rather low. MacOS in particular is littered with broken interactions.
The underpinnings -- the stuff users don't see -- suffers from this much less, and if there were a choice of where to have attention to detail, that would be the right choice. But Apple is big enough not to have to make this choice.
The cool animation when bringing phones close together to share contact and data?
Well, work 10% of the time for airdrop, but often doesn’t do anything…