As has been previously mentioned, Mojave will give you an HFS+/APFS option (Take APFS!), and Catalina will auto-upgrade to APFS, but all that is so far under the hood that you needn't worry about it. (It's pertinent to me because I"ve always been a big-time partitioner, and to joemike because with APFS he's become one.)
Not quite, I am still an anti-partitioner! 🙅â€â™‚ï¸ I like and use APFS volumes 👌 but they shouldn't be equated to a Partition. A Partition is a fixed allocation of hardware disk space while a Volume is a virtual data structure that files can be assigned to and those files can be anywhere on the drive. APFS Volumes neatly avoid all of the constraints and restrictions that I objected to in Partitions.
Other than that, I agree with everything Artie said.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
