Yes I have.
However, your rant about the “beach ball of death” is wild exaggeration.
I merely called it what other Mac users call it. They call it the “beach ball of death.” I’m not making that up.
I find it odd that a Mac can’t bring itself to show a hour glass so it puts up a spinning beach ball, this while PC users have not seen anything functionally like it on a PC in years.
The beachball means the Mac machine can not process the information quickly enough, please wait.
I’ve used a Mac just once in a while when my PC was down. But I have seen that “beach ball of death”, and in my experience, once it appeared, that was it. I had to shut down and start up again.
From what I remember, it occurred at various times, but if I was ever on the computer at midnight, it would appear at that time for sure. Anyone know why - does Apple have some sort of programming to update or reinitialize at midnight or whatever?