I just came across
this Eclectic Light blog on
Rethinking recovery and re-installing macOS. If I read it correctly it would seem clones are only one of the
old standby problem solutions that have become "a cure that is worse than the problem" and not just on Apple silicon, but Intel as well. On the plus side those solutions
should be needed far less often 🤞. What remains unchanged is the adage "The only constant
IS change." To which I would add the corollary "… and the rate of change continues to accelerate logarithmically."