Desktop icons cannot be dragged to grid positions
I am building on a software bug that is a major annoyance that has plagued all Mac desktops systems for more than a decade because it is being ignored by Apple software developers. On Nov 23, 2020, an experienced user named Matt B. outlined the problem very well: "Desktop icons cannot be dragged to grid positions. When I try to move a desktop icon to a gap in the grid, it jumps to some other gap in the grid as soon as I let go of the mouse. (Snap to grid is turned on.) This is a problem with Mac OS 11 and was also a problem with recent versions of Mac OS X. This is something that always worked since my original "Fat Mac" in 1984 but in recent years does not work. The finder keeps trying to force icons to grid positions other than the one that I have dragged them to. On my old machine running Mac OS X 10.4, this will always happen if you try to drag the icon to the center of the grid position, but you can always put the icon into the position that you want by dragging it a little to the lower-right of where you want it. In recent versions of Mac OS dragging icons does not work at all and my desktop is a mess."
So far, the response from Apple has been a bandaid approach that eschews a permanent fix: "Please right click on desktop and select "Clean Up."" This only works for a while and then the same thing keeps happening: icons do not want to stay on the grid where they are positioned -- they snap to some totally random place. Like Matt, I have close to 4 decades experienced working with Macs -- and back in the good old days, the snap to grid worked flawlessly. Absolutely everyone I know that works on a mac deals with this -- and they have just settled with having messy folders/desktops. This is a very widespread problem.
In short: the routinely provided solution: "Please right click on the desktop and select clean up" only solves the problem momentarily, because not long after, the same issue begins to occur. This is a software bug that needs to be fixed. Thank you for your attention to this issue.
iMac 27″, macOS 11.6