I’ve given Tahoe a miss, too. I know that GG 27 is being likened to a Snow Leopard release. However, ironically for me, as someone that started owning Macs on Panther, Snow Leopard was the OS that gave me the most bother. I think it came installed as the OS on one of the first 27" iMacs models and I received it upon release. No end of phone calls to Apple Support to remedy the issue. That was almost 17 years ago, so I can’t even recall what the problem was but I know it took hours of back and fore to resolve.
So “Snow Leopard,” in my world, is not a euphemism for the panacea to all ills. 