i am another dev for whom desktop safari is their primary browser, and my biggest website incompatibility issues seem to arise from the fact that safari blocks 3rd party cookies by default. for example, i can only access google docs via a private browsing window and then logging in fresh (if required to access the doc); otherwise, i get a “We’ve detected a problem with your cookie settings” error page, and i’m pretty sure that the “problem” they detect is that 3rd party cookies are disabled. note that chrome announced plans to block 3rd party cookies back in 2022, but then delayed the rollout to 2023, and have now delayed it again to 2024.

a big part of the reason that i use safari is that i have terrible browser tab hygiene. my primary mechanism for saving pages or conference talks or whatever content to look at later is keeping it open in a browser tab, so right now, for example, i have 52 windows open with 136 tabs, and safari somehow limits the memory usage of all of those windows and tabs to approximately the same amount of memory that chrome consumes to render around 5 tabs. the other two biggest reasons are handoff between my iPhone/iPad and mac and apple pay, but even without those features, i would still use safari just for its efficient memory usage.

BTW I am one of those that love @adamstac’s changelog++ voice 😁
And @jerodsanto’s comment of “closer to the metal” 😁
Even though IIRC you two had pointed it out that you don’t know what metal it would be closer to 🤣

I’m personally not a changelog++ member yet, but I just can’t personally afford it yet 😅