I’m a big user of BTT - BetterTouchTool - and was pleased to discover they have a menu manager function in their suite of tools.
So I no longer use Bartender or any of its equivalents.
It only took a couple of minutes to set up.
https://docs.folivora.ai/docs/6e_manage_menubar_status_items.html
This is timely. I was also growing frustrated with the increasing number of issues I was encountering with Bartender, which I’ve used for many years.
I finally decided to pull the trigger and make a switch. After reading around, I settled on Ice. I’m only a week or two in, but it’s been pretty seamless and without issue so far.
Also, at least for my purposes, it’s pretty much identical to Bartender, to the point where I sometimes forget I even made the switch. (Besides the fact that I’m no longer encountering the headaches I was encountering with Bartender.)