But it's not the old way, at least not for for MacOS (and last time I checked, Linux, which you use?). Granted, the MacOS version upgrades are indeed _a thing_

But it's not the old way, at least not for for MacOS (and last time I checked, Linux, which you use?). Granted, the MacOS version upgrades are indeed _a thing_, and pretty annoying, but that problem still exists even with the incremental upgrades Windows does. There's just no way around certain types of upgrade that touch core components.