It’s not only that it’s opinionated, it’s that it’s idiosyncratically opinionated. It would be different if it had a boring, middle-of-the-road opinion.

It's not that it's idiosyncratically opinionated, it's that its idiosyncratic opinion is insane, user-hostile, and flies in the face of decades of experience crafting user interfaces.

Different for the sake of being different.

This would be fine too if there wasn't a legion of unhinged "designers" in position of power throughout the entire industry that mimic every bad decision apple makes.

Apple design is only different on release, after a few months I start getting force fed apple-isms in programs that don't have anything to do with them.

Or at least consistent opinions

It seems it'd at least getting consistently bad opinions on it.