Just Connections, Wordle, and Mini for me (in that order), with the occasional Crossword (tend towards a barbell strategy of just doing maybe Mon, Tue, Sun to get the quick hits and a real challenging puzzle).

Also experience the odd difficulty due to Americanisms, but can't really fault a puzzle coming from something called the New York Times for that. I do however think the puzzle setting for Connections is inferior to The Wall from Only Connect, where they got the idea from. If you haven't seen that yet it's definitely worth a watch (it gets harder as as a season progresses).

I think the hardest part of connections is that there are intentionally overlaps between most (if not all) of the categories. When my wife and I would do them daily, she would steadfastly refuse to make a single guess until she was fairly confident in the entire solution because in practice it was hard to be sure of the current four for a given category even with high confidence of what the category is. (I agreed with her but in practice have both less patience and more trouble figuring out certain categories, so I would often guess and either take a few misses before figuring it out or sometimes completely fail).

I still think the ultimate puzzle is the Sunday crossword (followed closely by Thur-Sat), though Connections is great. And definitely difficult (but never feels unfair).

I cancelled my subscription a few years back due to the way NYT was covering the current administration. At the time, I believed they'd never offer a "puzzles only" subscription because then they'd lose a large part of their subs. But, I was wrong. And now they offer a puzzle-only subscription.

There's a great documentary about the Crossword with Will Shortz that came out about a decade ago that's interesting.

Spelling bee is also pretty consistent.

Connections are the only one that can't be solved by either a regexp grep against /usr/share/dict/words or an LLM query. I was actually surprised how poorly LLMs fared against it---I thought they'd be better at associating peripheral connections.