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This is the part I'm missing too. Major versions are the time to ship braking changes, did none of these companies bother to test their software that mucks deep in the plumbing of the OS?

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It is very typical to file bugs against even the first beta and not see them fixed before GM, or even ever.

They did, reported it, nothing changed.

It's an OS bug, you can't make it look good by invoking some generic "time to break" principle

Or they fixed a bug/loophole that allowed this software to function?

Or they didn't since this software is supposed to function and has been functioning for all the previous many years/OS versions?

Is there even an equivalent to WSUS on macOS that lets admins block an update until it's tested?

Yeah. There’s Jamf and similar tools. Companies often block major updates until their 100 agents all officially support it. Oh, and do cool things like not letting you change your background or whatever random settings some admin decides are good.

Yep, a lot of these policies seem to come from some random person scrolling through a list of supported options and arbitrarily making up values that are enforced on people.

One of our policies enforce that screen savers must start after 20 minutes, and it’s not possible to reduce it (I have my personal on 3 minutes). Or the fact that it will constantly reset the UI notification volume to 100% and speaker output, even though have headphones almost always.

Infuriating.

There is a configuration profile payload that can stop updates like major version changes for up to 90 days. You cannot stop them indefinitely from appearing in Software Update.

Yes, it's called MDM (Mobile Device Management) and lets admins set all kinds of policy on apple devices. There are several vendors out there that implement it.

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