Marcin Wichary made an incredible website that lets you experience the Mac’s various different preference panels over the decades. This is a mine of incredibly good and incredibly bad design, and a frankly unbelievable way to play with it all.
I really like the panels in the original from 1984, but I think the 1987 control panel works well too. The 1987 panel reminds me of where we are today, but it was obviously designed with a lot more love and care.