I'm sorry you personally are unhappy with MacOS, truly. I don't connect my iPhone except to charge it, so I have no idea what that experience is like. Perhaps

I'm sorry you personally are unhappy with MacOS, truly. I don't connect my iPhone except to charge it, so I have no idea what that experience is like. Perhaps it is a disgrace. Then again, Apple made iPhone completely independent from Macs quite a few years ago now, so I have no idea why one would connect one in 2022 on MacOS Ventura. I haven't observed icons disappearing prematurely when ejecting volumes, although that's something I do rarely. The Ventura update itself finished unattended on both my M1 Mac mini and my M1 Pro MacBook, so that one doesn't seem to be a universal issue. Again, what few specifics are mentioned are clearly not universal, and I can't really judge vague statements at all. If you feel it's dumbed down, who can argue? If you feel it's being run into the ground, who can argue?