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> The software experience is getting worse imo, particularly when upgrading.

Many people chiming-in about the absolutely rock-solid stability of the last few updates, and I'm adding my vote to that.

I have had zero system-crashes or freezes for maybe 2 or even 3 years now. I tend to wait to hear what other people's experiences are, but that waiting-time is getting shorter these days. And the update process is also getting smoother: almost never any need to fix update issues with apps.

If I go back 10 or 15 years, I remember regular kernel panics, tricky restarts into 'safe mode', spinning beachballs, clearing the PRAM (don't even remember what that was about anymore - but it was needed all the time), and so on. It was an ongoing task to keep the OS running.

So this idea that MacOS is "getting worse" is just complete amnesia, in my view. I have never worked with anything so stable and powerful in my entire developer experience over the last 25+ years.

If we're talking about the price of these machines (and especially the measly disks and RAM on the cheapest options) - that's another matter...