A more down to Earth impression of Ventura than joemike has heretofore given us...
- The progress bar for the installation started out at 59 minutes, but the process took only 27.
- Most important, my MBP's "hesitating" to process input, which has plagued me since I upgraded to Monterey, has been mostly cured. (*)
- The extensions and legacy/unsigned apps I feared would stop working are all working as expected.
- Systems Settings is confusing as all get-out at first, but begins to make sense after a while. The hardest part of the learning curve arises from relocated items, which force you to search for stuff that used to be "right there."
- The Login Items pane has FINALLY been rendered in alphabetical order! Yay!
- My Input Source menu bar icon which morphed from an American flag to a generic icon, back to a flag when I added a second source, to US in an ugly black box in Monterey, has become an A in an ugly black box.
- For some reason that's incomprehensible to me, the background color of the graphs at the bottom of /Apps/Utilities/Activity Monitor > Energy has been changed from a pleasant light green to an unpleasant drab green. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At any rate, I'm a happy camper.
(*) I still get some hesitation, but I'm not certain that it's the same issue, and at any rate, it's very significantly less.