Is it really another improvement? ... or is it more and more frustrations with new features having bugs and other problems that are never really solved.
Music Home Sharing will hardly work, if at all, with earlier versions of iTunes such as 12.9 and 12.8 - songs don't show up, album artwork doesn't show up, when going between playlists it keeps showing the same playlists, unable to import anything via Homesharing (yet no issue when using iTunes 12.9 and 12.8 when using their Homesharing) (get unknown error codes -50 or 5004 that have no clear solutions anywhere), etc., etc. I can't get my large iTunes library to work properly at all in my 2020 iMac with the latest Monterey - album artwork doesn't show up, playlists messed up, etc.
In the newly updated Safari, things like Tools and More show up but don't work below the Google search bar.
iMovie won't import most of my previous versions of iMovie projects such as from iMovie Mojave (in fact, back in December 2021 the new iMovie in Monterey would also not work with any of my iMovie Big Sur projects and I had to completely start over). Wow, and what a waste of time.
Always changing organizational file structure, etc. with no apparent purpose other then what appears to be a new gimmick- such as how and where album artwork is stored in Music.
They removed the ability to look at long list of stocks on the right side bar and now get to only include a very small number - why? Used to be able to make the side bar appear with a slide on an Magic Mouse (now have to move your curser up to the top right) - why?
Menu bars change, such as in Apple Mail ... but why. I say it worked better in Mojave. Can't group all your mail accounts under one heading. If you delete trash messages under one account, it deletes them for all accounts - which is just crazy.
A multi billion dollar very profitable company with a very narrow scope of their own homemade hardware, yet they can't get it to just work with their own devices. In fact, they have so little hardware to accommodate. Yet Windows (I know it has issues), has to please a very, very broad scope of hardware made by different manufacturers with tons of after purchase hardware add ons, all going back years and it just works generally. You can find your photos in your Windows file structure ... in MacOS it is buried somewhere in a photos package that is not intuitive to search. Who really needs a new operating system every year - Windows XP, after the first few years, worked for years and I still work with it with no I issues at all. Go figure.
I could go on and on. Apple needs to focus on making all, or almost all, things work properly and backwards compatible with their own hardware and software for more then just the penultimate version.
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