> The macOS Tahoe app icon squircling is a pain and a cost for indie developers like me and the others shown above.
No? The system provided you with an icon. You aren’t obligated to redesign anything.
It’s fair to disagree with the aesthetics of the new style or usability of losing unique silhouettes or readability of shrinking icons down to fit in the squircle, but it isn’t creating any obligation for indie developers.
I understood Apple modernized the icons on iOS, because many users fell into the "I want to unify everything" mode. But I can't believe they done the same with macOS. Not only they screw up many icons (incl. my favorite; the Finder) - they destroy the investments of many indie developers.
But this is a tendency they have started long ago. Latest when they unified the shape, we should have send thousands of mails to Cupertino. No it is too late… is it?