Sorry, but I’ve lost track. Panorama being one of, if not the most, important programs I use, as well as an old friend dating back to v.1.2 or something, as recommended by BMUG… Is it likely safe for me to update to Sequoia 15.2? I have the latest Panorama release.
ProVUE has not yet had a chance to try out Panorama X on 15.2 - the latest we’ve verified is 15.1. I’m not anticipating any problems, and none have been reported so far, but if you want to be extra safe you should wait.
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OK, thanks Jim. Do you think we’ll ever reach Perfect Mac OS?
Nah! I have a nephew who works at Apple HQ and he’s constantly in a panic about the tension between the programmers/developers and the sales/marketing/management folks who roll things out before the techies are ready. But maybe techies are endless tinkerers, so management has to step in.
I think many are not sure we are even headed in that direction! 
I once worked for a very early CD authoring software developer (back when CD burners cost only $50,000). My cube was on the other side of the partition from the Salesperson. During a quiet period, I heard him talking to a potential customer and mentioning what the software would do and he made the sale.
The problem was, that several of the features mentioned weren’t implemented; some had been only casually discussed in a product meeting. I told the salesperson I would have to take the call when the irate customer called back after the sale. The Salesperson said his job was to sell. My job was to find, “make it work” solutions.
Something can approach perfection if its feature set doesn’t change and, after release, additional efforts only go into “fixing things”. But that’s not the way of the world.
Customers have been trained to want new and shiny instead of familiar and reliable. And no matter how large the beta testing team (often, unwittingly, you and I), all scenarios can’t be accounted for “in the lab”.
A good visual to see what’s happened is to open the hood of something like a 1954 Chevy and look at the engine compartment. Now do the same for any new automobile.
My 1980, gas-powered Datsun could get 43 MPG - and that was with a catalytic converter. Here we are, 45 years later, getting between 25-35 MGP with new cars (which are aerodynamically sleeker). Do you think it was the engineers who made the decisions that reduced gas mileage?
“But maybe techies are endless tinkerers, so management has to step in.” - The problem is in your sentence but I think it is weighted more towards the management stepping in part rather than the tinkery techies.
Driving back onto the road, I’m running OS 15.2 on an M2 mini and have had no problems with PanoramaX.
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