I personally don’t even look at new OS for like a year after its release. And to be honest all these things like Stage Manager and the like, they hold zero interest. I’m concerned witll it run what I need it to run when I need it to run it
Like you, for my main Mac, I don’t install new OSes until the next one comes out, so I’ll move to Ventura soon. I also need to do so for SwiftUI…
But for my testing Mac, I’ve been testing Sleep Aid on Sonoma, and so far it seems stable. I may have found a sleep related bug already. The Mac woke to display a notification and didn’t go back to sleep, there were 3 different Apple helpers holding it in darkWake, including the pushNotifications daemon.
It was the need for an updated XCode to be able to test apps on a real ios16 device the pushed me to go to Ventura which I did just a few months ago… but it had already been out for quite a long time already.
Sadly the book I read uses some SwiftUI that doesn’t exist in Monterey. The author even points it out. I guess when I go all in on SwiftUI, I’ll have to adopt a release schedule like other developers and that’s only supporting the current version of the macOS
Once Sonoma is released, I’ll be cutting back to a maximum of 5 versions of the macOS. App Wrapper will only support 4, but that’s more Apple’s call more than mine.