There’s something very weird about macOS multitasking in general, onedrive and other apps that you’d expect to stay alive always in the background constantly need to be refreshed.

Perhaps IT at $DAYJOB has pinned to one of the few good versions of GlobalProtect™, but the only trouble I've had with it on my work-issued Mac (and this is a recent trouble) was it refusing to pop up the dialog to enter two-factor creds.

Granted, this is a right pain in the ass, because you have to restart the fucking GlobalProtect™ service to flush out the bug... but otherwise, it has been fine for years and years.

Zero problems with globalprotect on my work Mac for the year or so I’ve been using it.

I’m actually super surprised because the thing looks like cheap jankware.

Blame marketing, branding and pressure for value-add. There's no reason for anyone to have a VPN client you can see. It's all IPSec, OpenVPN, or wireguard under the covers. It should be handed off to the OS, but every corp needs to be a special little snowflake and show you their logo. (Yeah, I'm bitter, I fought with way too many crappy GUI wrappers for openvpn CLI) Once the app exists, there seems to be little pressure to make it actually good - one of them updated and literally removed the necessary client but just from the MacOS releases.

(ZeroTier gets a pass though because it's an uncommon protocol and I can't remember the last time I've actually seen the app open - as it should be.)