I’ve so far resisted using HN for tech support, but I’ll jump on the macOS hate bandwagon. My MBP M1 Max with 32 GB RAM has become near-unusable with Tahoe. Trying to switch users? Frozen. Click on something? Beachballs. There’s visible stutter and hangs in the lock screen animations. I hate it so much.

I'm running Tahoe on an M1 Air with 16GB RAM and it's been smooth for me. Might be worth trying a fresh OS install? Something seems off with your setup.

>Might be worth trying a fresh OS install?

Very "Windows-y", no?

Yup. That's where macOS is now.

It really isn’t like that for me though. The bugs are consistently there regardless of how old the OS install is. I don’t get more when I haven’t done a fresh install in a couple years.

This doesn't sound like a tech support question. Sounds like stepping up to the mic at an emotional support group: "Am I the only one?"

Well no, this group is your people and you're speaking to the choir.

Instal Sequoia~~~ you probably can squeeze two OSes on same APFS container even.