> I just don’t really agree with the idea that Apple’s apps are crashing and memory leaking all over the place, and if they are, not more than the median application.

Apple has some amazing engineering in the basic OS layer and the UI kit, but everything on top of it is just bad. E.g. it now takes about 5 seconds to "Privacy & Security" in the system settings, and I can see a visible delay when switching between sections (e.g. to "Screen Time").

Network settings are just embarrassing at this point - you can't sort the WiFi networks by name when looking at the saved settings!

Time Machine has been a disaster zone for the last 20 years. The keyboard navigation experience in macOS is a disgrace, worse than Win3.11 The virtualization experience of macOS sucks, and there is no support for containers (even Windows has them!).

I can continue for a long time.

>E.g. it now takes about 5 seconds to "Privacy & Security" in the system settings

It's instant for me on a six year old base level Mini.