Let's hug and cry. :D Last time I blindly updated Spacemacs itself I lost an hour getting it back to a workable state, sigh. Learned my lesson since then. I do

Let's hug and cry. :D Last time I blindly updated Spacemacs itself I lost an hour getting it back to a workable state, sigh. Learned my lesson since then. I do both: (a) completely back up my ~/.emacs.d to another directory and (b) write down the last-known GIT commit hash of Spacemacs. Paid off huge dividends half the time I did updates ever since. I love Emacs but it seems certain things won't ever get resolved (like macOS slow rendering although that's like 70% attributed to huge fonts with a lot of emojis in them so I got that part sorted at least). Again, thanks for the support -- much appreciated! I'll go through the links plus will try to resolve my Org Mode problem in particular -- eventually.