I think it's worthwhile. The last several updates of basically anything but particularly ios and os have been remarkably enshittified - there countless surreal

I think it's worthwhile. The last several updates of basically anything but particularly ios and os have been remarkably enshittified - there countless surreal anecdotes of bizarre glitch after glitch after glitch inexplicable if basic ux, trouble shooting, debuggging etc was done. Apple support forums are now an entire sub-genre of enraged or upset people begging Apple for help -"since the x update, I cannot see the cursor or cut and paste, I have an essay to write' etc etc and without any response. AND yes - this is why it's worthwhile, every utterance from Apple is about how they're integrating A.I. etc and how revolutionary extraordinary etc it is. The cognitive dissonance is crazy and I can't think of any company that was that great and had such devoted customers which has turned into an 'it just sucks' brand - not for everyone of course. Admittedly I speak as someone who foolishly updated to 18.1.1 and have just spent several hours undoing all the compulsory "we're connecting you to blah blah blah" features. OS Sonoma is worse. Sorry if this sounds reddittyy but does anyone with inside intel know why/how they've gotten so bad. Eg; Before - maybe in about 2013: 'get new mac -- excitement' - 'updates - usually cool. new features, maybe a bug or two.' Now the excitement has dwindlied and any update requires at least an hour of debugging undoing all the bloat.