Though many people won't agree with me, Tahoe is undoubtedly the most buggy, slow, and unstable macOS release in years. To start, everything I do feels about 2x slower compared to Sequoia; Opening apps, submenus, control center, etc. Not to mention the launchpad reloading every freaking time I open it. For reference, I have a 2019 16" i9, 32gb, Radeon pro 5500m 8gb MBP which I wouldn't consider underpowered by any means. I have windows 10 dual booted along with Sequoia, and my Mac flies through both of them no problem. Only Tahoe is performing this horribly

Even though Tahoe is approaching its .4 release, it feels like it isn't getting much better. The amount of freezes, random crashes, and overall very slow performance I still have is unacceptable. Many bugs that I have been experiencing since release are still present in the latest version and submitting feedback hasn't done anything for me. 26.3 made performance slightly better but it's still nowhere near the levels of Sequoia. Even with automatic graphics switching turned off it still gets very choppy and the whole display becomes slightly washed out for some reason. Turing on reduced transparency didn't help one bit either. I understand that I can simply move back to Sequoia, (which I have) but eventually I will have to downgrade to Tahoe for app compatibility and security. Tahoe is currently on a separate partition for testing.

I know Apple has already confirmed that Tahoe will be the last release for Intel Macs, but it's such a horrible release to kill intel off on. Apple has basically given no thought into making Tahoe optimized and perform well, and I doubt they will be able to fix all of the bugs before the next release. MacOS 27 is reportedly only going to be a bug fix and performance update that will fix all of the issues with Tahoe, so why keep intel users locked out of that? I know people tend to disagree about planned obsolescence but this feels like a pretty strong case. It feels like Apple is practically forcing intel users to upgrade. I get that it's time for intel to go, but why like this?

Tahoe feels like a big "fuck you!" to Intel Mac users.