MacOS has changed dramatically in the last 3 years alone. This isn’t just UI tweaks, although those are annoying. I have daily driven MacOS for 10 years now. It’s no longer serviceable.
Specifics? I’m not saying you’re wrong — different use cases are different use cases — but I just don’t see anything in the last three releases that changed it enough to make it unserviceable for any previously suitable use case.
Been using macOS/OSX for work since 2010 or 2011. It seems basically the same to me, aside from a couple performance-enhancing releases that really did improve things noticeably. And better/smoother interoperation with iOS and iCloud. I don't see any big differences.
iOS, that's changed a lot. Could we move back toward iOS 6? I still miss it.
I’ve used OSX on Intel since Leopard (10.5), though I have a Jaguar (10.2), Panther (10.3) install on my old PowerBook and Tiger (10.4) on my G4 Mac Mini, and small things changed, but on the whole the OS is the same. I mean, Aqua style changed massively between 10.2 and 10.5, so there are arguments that the UI might have seemed better to some pre Intel. For me, Spotlight, Exposé and Spaces made a massive difference and that is what I miss most when I have to do something on a legacy install. Even Tiger is painful to use because of missing Spaces and Exposé.
I use Monterey at the moment on my main Mac and it’s absolutely fine.
Possibly the lack of spaces? I use Exposé mostly to organise my spaces these days. I use older OSX less and less as PowerPC is only useful to developing the retro68 port. Since I got Sorbet Leopard on the G4 it also hardly boots Tiger.
The one big core OS thing that's changed by my reckoning— and I don't even believe it was within the last three releases— is the hoop jumps required to run unsigned code. I honestly don't see a problem with the move because they do provide a path to execute it when you need to, but it could probably be a little more straightforward.
Just tried this with a pair of AudioTechnica headphones and an Insigia bluetooth speaker and couldn't reproduce it. Tried regular already-paired connections and removing/pairing. Maybe it's driver-specific with something you're using?
