Monterey Installation Problems Beta vs Official release

[jmhbpc]

I installed Monterey 12.0 beta back in July. on a MBPro mid 2015
I blithely updated to 12.1 beta just last week around 11/29 I think. No problems.
At the time 12.1 beta was actually in the App Store

What happened in the day or two between the last beta and the official Monterey
release to turn it into a potential brick maker?

Of course now is not the time to upgrade my other MBPro 2017, but shouldn't
Apple pull its current official release off the App Store until the problem has been sorted out?

Other Side Issues
Should Apple quit including firmware updates in whole system releases?
Perhaps it would be safer to have firmware updates as discreet iterations.
The protocols for firmware updates are almost always accompanied by
strict instruction on how to safely install these deep code/hardware changes

 

[cfm56d7b]

There is no mechanism to influence Apple's direction on this topic. Unfortunately. Personally, I am delaying the upgrade to Monterey until .5 or even .6 release. There are far too many issues which suggest Apple has much to improve in the quality engineering department.

 

[macosdon]

This is the worst released OS I 've met. You can't even update successfully on an officially support Mac model for its first release. My original Apple SSD has long been traded off. It's ridiculous for having an original Apple SSD to update a newly released OS. Never happened to other versions of Mac OS. This Monterey has been experienced 10 betas but there are still so many issues. Really piece of crap!

 

[jmhbpc]

Hi,
Could you clarify "My original Apple SSD has long been traded off. It's ridiculous for having an original Apple SSD to update a newly released OS."
please.
Are you indicating that your Apple SSD is not installed and you experienced problems trying to install on a late model Mac, with a third party SSD Drive?

 

[macosdon]

Hi,
Could you clarify "My original Apple SSD has long been traded off. It's ridiculous for having an original Apple SSD to update a newly released OS."
please.
Are you indicating that your Apple SSD is not installed and you experienced problems trying to install on a late model Mac, with a third party SSD Drive?

My model is a mid-2015 MacBook-Pro, the original Apple SSD on this Mac has been replaced by a third party SSD, can't update to Monterey successfully on a third party SSD, many users of this model have experienced such an issue and some of them updated their Mac to Monterey by putting back the original Apple SSD, for those who don't have the original Apple SSD, it's a headache.