I would say almost the opposite, with the caveat that I don't think MacPorts is much better. I've grown to dread interacting with homebrew because it's increas

I would say almost the opposite, with the caveat that I don't think MacPorts is much better. I've grown to dread interacting with homebrew because it's increasingly opinionated with none of the benefits of being opinionated. Want to encode h.265 video? Brew still hasn't adopted an up-to-date libx265, so there's no NEON support. Want to use postgis? Welp you're stuck with Postgres 14. Want to do change anything about a package? Welp now you've gotta go track down whatever repository and go down that road instead of using command line arguments. And bash? bash has one killer feature: readline. zsh has some interesting eye candy but still can't match readline's history search where you can anchor the search from an arbitrary point in the command string. The only must have app I've found so far is Little Snitch (application firewall). Beyond that most of the setup I've done on my daily drive is undoing the brain damage Apple's imparted with Sonoma. For all the bugs and enshittification perhaps the most difficult part has been that you simply can't find all of the settings in the System Settings app via its search. The new style keyboard navigation (which involves mercilessly clobbering UI widgets) is available under the accessibility page (where the old style keyboard navigation option used to live), but the less intrusive old style keyboard navigation is now under the keyboard page. I forget why I disabled "show widgets in stage manager", but it had nothing to do with stage manager. There are a few things that are worth changing from the command line: e.g. the new text input wigdet / cursor that provides the visual caps lock indication (and worse the occasional input source icon). Edit: Oh yeah. An up-to-date sqlite is super helpful, as well as a more flexible terminal app (iTerm2 and/or WezTerm for me). And of course some fonts.