Wiping M4Pro MacBook Pro; pros and cons of returning to Sequoia?

[landshark2]

The vast majority of my posts here have been about my Music collection, one way or another.

I've decided that I don't want/need my entire music collection on my iPhone, and the solution I've come up with is to make the MacBook Pro the iPhone source, with the slimmed down music library.

I'm running Sequoia on my M4 Mini, predominantly because on the 50" TV monitors for that device, I leave the Music app open at the top of the screen (as well as Finder, Preview and Pages), with the Safari and Firefox browsers down from the top such that the control bars are visible. Tahoe floats the Music controls near the bottom, which is a hard no for me.

That arrangement isn't important on the MacBook Pro, but the near bottom floating Music controls is still mildly annoying.

The bigger question is "Do I need Tahoe?" This switch to being the iPhone source marks the first time the MacBook will have real purpose. Currently it's just a backup web browser during power outages.

 

[axantas]

Fact:
Tahoe "hides" the Music controls below a probably appearing, blurring horizontal scrollbar on the bottom, blurring parts of the list view of the music making the user searching for it on top all the time, because it is not clearly visible at the bottom. Who the f.. puts control elements half blurry in the middle of text.

+1 to you.

It is not "mildly annoying" it is hideous. I already filed a feedback regarding this useless change.

Regarding the "need" to switch, I have the impression, that Tahoe and iOS26 are working together more and more with each iteration, but it will certainly not break functionality in the next future, not using Tahoe.