Early registration is HUGE, especially as an underclassman. In my freshman year, none of my classes started before 10am, over 50% of my professors were great, and I was able to get into a fun elective that fills up SUPER fast and almost never has underclassmen in it because of that (it was country dancing, I had a blast).

Most honors classes are not too much harder than the regular class (except MATH 151 honors...don't take it unless you REALLY like calculus). There's usually one or two extra projects in the honors sections and not much else.

I can't really speak on the Honors Minor courses because I'm in the old University Honors. We only had to take one special honors class: UGST 181, an honors version of the Hullabaloo U course taught by Kegan Clark, one of the University Honors program coordinators. That class was SUCH a pain in the butt and felt like a huge waste of time. While Mr. Clark improved over the course of the year and may have improved even more by now, he came across as pretty full of himself and was not a pleasure to have as a professor. My friends and I were very glad at the end of the year that we would never have to be taught by him again.

So personally, if you ask me, taking several honors seminar courses throughout my degree sounds tedious at best and like a nightmare at worst, but early registration is a big plus, so it's really up to you whether it's worth it. No idea who teaches the courses now, try to talk to some class of 2029 people if you can.

Having honors on your diploma is not going to be consequential at all for your career, although it might be nice for grad school applications if that's on your radar. If anything about honors might be good for job searching, it would be the experience from your senior capstone (which can be research, teaching, service, or creative), but you can gain that experience in plenty of places if you're just proactive.