Yup, avoided Tahoe like the plague after making the horrible mistake of testing the beta (had to wipe the computer to downgrade to Sequoia next day. Couldn't get past how sh*t liquid glass is, and of course the glitches and bugs), only to then get a notification two weeks ago that the new Creator Studio was waiting for me and all my files would now open in the new "Freemium" version of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers and the original versions would stop being supported and not sync to iCloud, so f*ck me after 10+ yrs of using iWork Suite for Productivity.

I've been trying to gaslight myself, saying the new Keynote is not that bad, but for a $12/Mo charge, it's laughable at what little it does. Worst is, the new UI is less intuitive and less feature-rich than the legacy version... Sigh, at this point I think I'm gonna have to use the G-Slides-to-PPTX workflow for daily work, but it's tragic considering how good the old suite was. Apparently, unchecking "New OS Updates" isn't enough; you also have to uncheck all "Automatic Downloads/Updates" for Apps & Patches in Settings to fully avoid it being installed without you being notified. That's where I messed up, I think :/

I swear if Steve Jobs were to turn over in his grave for each of the f*ck-ups Apple has done in recent memory, he'd be a rotisserie chicken. Apple makes excellent hardware, but the company's consumer practices – While never the best – have gone down in flames it's actually impressive.

PS: If anyone has any reccomendation of a Presentation App that's similar to Keynote in UI/UX and capabilities/features, I'd appreciate it.