Thanks a lot for the very detailed answer... I noticed it actually looks much better since I updated Sonoma to 14.1.2 (or maybe it's even fixed, I need to test it deeper), but if I still have issues I'll follow your recommendations.
I'm surprised Text Edit is such a coding mess (given the apparent simplicity of the app), and I guess it shows something from how Apple manages its apps in general.
I must say that I use almost no built-in Apple apps (except Text Edit, Notes, Calendar and Music), because each time I tried I found they were crippled with crazy non-ergonomic behavior. For exemple Photos, that creates copies of pictures everywhere, or Notes where you can't save your (often thousands of) notes when you need to install a new OS from scratch (backing up through creating a pdf for each note ? Are you crazy Apple ?)... Of course there is iCloud, but it is such a crazy mess and I had so much problems when I was using it (especially if you don't pay for the additionnal cloud storage space) that I can't imagine using it anymore...
And so on...
To give my (humble) opinion on the
@Nick Batzdorf complain, I think that Apple are the first to blame. Of course, Native Instruments and Plugin Alliance became a mess recently and obviously can't manage the developpement of their plugins on the long term. At this precise moment (december 2023), NI and PA are indeed the only plugins that make problem on my M1 pro system (even if they are supposed to be compatible - I don't speak about the abandonware plugins that are still not Apple Silicon ready, like Boz Digital Labs stuff and few others).
I never had any issues with Fabfilter, Valhalla, AudioThing and even Soundtoys plugins...
But Apple is destroying everything each year with their release pace, and give a lot of non necessary work to the plugins devs just so the non professionals Apple users can use new emojis. It's a known fact that anyone using Apple as an audio production machine always stays few OS versions behind : because a new OS almost never brings any improvement for audio work, and almost always brings instability and issues with pro audio tools.
Of course I understand that some progress is important, and I appreciate the huge technological jump that was the Apple Silicon tech. I did accept the mess that were the first 2 years of this new technology, because of the massive change it was, but a new OS each year, with the huge additionnal work it represents for both the devs and the users (I can't count the time I spent in the last 2 years checking plugins, monitoring their update release, testing them, trying to understand the issues, trying to find an alternative to the non working plugins, etc. etc. etc.) is truly an absurd policy that is toxic for everyone. But Apple of course...
The only interest I can see from the Apple point of view is to stay always ahead of the game by constantly disrupting the game. So this is a very agressive economical strategy, and it doesn't benefit anyone but Apple. I much prefer the Apple environnement to the Windows one (especially for audio) but I HATE the way they manage their economical position by disrupting everything constantly...
