A shadow of itself

Pages 09 was a wonderful word processor and page layout tool. It was powerful, accessible and beautiful. Pages 5 is a clunky word processor.

Other reviewers have written extensively about what Pages 5 cant do that every other word processor (including former versions) can do. Although Apple still makes beautiful hardware and a wonderful operating system that runs on that hardware, it no longer makes beautiful software.

The development history of this app shows a worrisome trend. It is nearly impossible now to process simple formatting features without drilling through multiple menus that demand full screen attention and break up flow. This was the best. Now its the worst--by far. The desktop app is similarly shedding advanced features and intuitive seamless interface elements in favour of--well really I dont know what the team designing this app is thinking. One example of a head scratching feature regression-- you used to be able to indent and outdent lists by swiping in the bullet list item--inexplicably this feature is gone. Now I need to click on the list item, click on the paintbrush button, click on the list button, and click on the indent. I have to do this every single time I want to indent or outdent. Its a joke. If I could give this app negative stars I would.

Storn about Pages, v2.6.1