@sdw Not alone! I also am choosing this path. I feel macOS 26 is more likely to interfere with my daily (software engineering) work, even if only a little.

no you are not. and I wanna say that I had manually updated iOS26 but then selected update tonight for iPadOS because I wasn't if I should update the iPad since it's my main device for taking notes and studying. But I am waiting a while before I update to macOS26 for sure!!

Still on Sonoma over here. 👀

That’s the move. Risky on the phone but never the computer. That’s where deep work happens.

Same but iPad

It’s on my Mac and it’s fine. Also I have no special apps for vitally important things either. Which I’m guessing you do.