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I continue to enjoy staying on Mojave (10.14.6) and iOS 12.4.1, and won't be buying an MBP or iPhone anytime soon. This is due to Apple's pattern of extracting

I continue to enjoy staying on Mojave (10.14.6) and iOS 12.4.1, and won't be buying an MBP or iPhone anytime soon. This is due to Apple's pattern of extracting money from customers through immediately crappy, defective, and less repairable products needing expensive services to operate as they were promised (repair services are now more profitable to Apple than hardware) and releasing buggy, critical feature-eliminating software that has negative value, means I refuse to play along with their unreasonable cult of conspicuous-consumption games lacking meritorious value any longer. Fool me once ... Catalina removes iTunes and 32-bit programs.

newscracker 7y ago
I’m not suggesting that you upgrade to Catalina yet. The removal of support for 32-bit programs was long coming, but I can see how it’s a big deal for some people running legacy software that may never be updated by the developer. You can run the latest (or any recent) version of iTunes on Catalina and use it to manage your iThings and content. There’s a forum post on Macrumors with a nifty AppleScript that will install an older version of iTunes (that you’ve separately downloaded) and make it available for you. It does require disabling SIP temporarily. It doesn’t seem like the determined user is forced to abandon iTunes, as of now.