OctoMonkey

Like elijahg, I used to love my HomePod but have fallen out of love with it.  For me the issue is it no longer works well.  I upgraded the HP (13.3.1 to 13.4.5) a few months ago and it immediately started having playback issues.  I have a very simple setup and ONLY use(d) the HP to play audio which I streamed from my Mac.  No Siri, no other music sources.  Playing music consistently caused an interruption with the audio stream.  I mean consistently:  The same two songs played in succession caused the audio to fail at the same point...  Every single time.  Hours and hours of troubleshooting with Apple support resulted in a complete denial of an issue at Apple's end.  Replaced the HP with a Sonos speaker and voila!  The problem went away!  The audio quality is not nearly as good as the HP (not even close), but - it - works!

I do miss the quality of the audio, but the inability to roll back the OS, the lack of a fix, and the denial of responsibility have caused me to bail on the HP.  After 30+ years, perhaps this is the start of my abandoning the Apple echo-system.  Time to break out the C-64!

Does anybody need a large, black paperweight?