Let’s not also forget that older versions of macOS like El Capitan snow leopard etc had a much smaller memory footprint than Monterey. They also worked well with much slower processors. As macOS has aged, apple has cut off older processors, and it’s to the point where Skylake and earlier completely get the boot in Ventura (the framebuffer doesn’t support Skylake’s uhd530 out of the box, and Ventura is requiring processors with AVX2, unless you use code/libraries from rosetta2 which doesn’t support avx2).
What are we getting in return for these more demanding hardware requirements? Bug city. Monterey has been plagued with bugs. So not only has the visual aesthetic taken a turn for the worse, the OS is now more resource intensive, bugged out, and I don’t know what the benefits are ? Dark mode? Side car? Universal control ? macOS still doesn’t have a built snap-to-grid feature for windows… instead you have to install third party tools like rectangle or mosaic or magnet to do the job.
And finally, stage manager is trash, it’s best feature is the ability to turn it off. What is apple doing to the OS? It is in decline in my opinion.
