Douglas, starting with an LC and System 6 in 1990 I am with totally with you in almost every respect. Now increasing age and irrationality see me questioning whether it was really worth replacing my perfectly functional 2013 iMac in order to run Big Sur when it arrived!
I have used cloning software for years in case of hardware failure (never happened) or OS update problems (which have, one of them blowing away 6 months of recent Time Machine history). Even if Volume cloning can’t be implemented immediately, it seems to me that it’s the Data volume that’s more important and it looks like that can still be cloned…
