Just like Windoze, macOS is not software any more, it has become a platform for rent seeking and money extraction. That shifts the priorities noticeably.
Tahoe...
I’ll take that over Windows.
At least the Apple developer related podcasts complaining about what is broken are entertaining.
And now Apple started to lose it.
They’ve been losing it for many years now, it just has become impossible to cover up now for even the most casual observers.