Strange to me that none of the items you mentioned ever happen to me, with the one caveat being I had to tweak my taskbar and dock slightly when I first set up

Strange to me that none of the items you mentioned ever happen to me, with the one caveat being I had to tweak my taskbar and dock slightly when I first set up the Mac for the first time. However, I am willing to bet for just about anyone within the HN community no one uses their rigs default out of box without some tweaking no matter Linux, windows or MacOS. My guess is that most do pretty extensive tweaks to set their systems up the way they like them. Perhaps I added fixes or did configuration tweaks when I originally set up the system and I just forgot and those are keeping those items you mentioned from bothering me. I think on this current box that was 6 years ago and has required nothing since and just reliably runs.