This is what I did too. I don't think I need bartender now. A lot of the cruft can be managed by the control center and there are smart options in the control c

This is what I did too. I don't think I need bartender now. A lot of the cruft can be managed by the control center and there are smart options in the control center and menu bar. These settings looked good to me: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 5 defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8