Why does Apple not have proper UI scaling to make UI elements bigger while still rendering the content at native resolution?

+1 Fine here as well.

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ThinkCorrectly wrote:

I am really frustraited with the 15 inch M2 MacBook Air I have to use for work because I cannot make the UI elements bigger than native resolution without having to endure blurry content. It isn't as bad as some of the zoom ratios used on other people's machines, but as a photographer I could never imagine buying this to use photoshop. It seems quite deceptive to hype up the "Retina Display" as providing clearer text or high resolution when the way you have to make the UI usable makes it anything but crisp

I'm sorry but it is not clear what your issue is. Are you saying you have an image of a certain resolution and you want to increase its resolution without blurriness when viewing on your screen? If so, I don't know of any way to add pixels to an image. If I am not understanding your issue perhaps you could rephrase it.

Unlike MS since Windows 95, the Mac OS has never had a resolution independent desktop where you can make menus and application text virtually any point size and font you want without changing the native screen resolution.

There are few things you have control over, like the size of the text in a folder viewed in List mode. But otherwise, not much.

Can you provide a screenshot or picture showing this blurry content? Seems to work fine here.