Should you upgrade to MacOS and iOS public betas? (no)

For the last few years, I have tested out the latest Mac and iOS developer beta versions, and I've had a lot of mixed experiences. Sometimes it's been rocky and I regretted doing it, other times, it hasn't been that bad and I enjoyed new features I've wanted to use months before they arrived for everyone else.The public betas of both MacOS 17 and iOS 27 were released this week to the general public, and they coincide with the third release of developer betas. The first few developer betas I've used were pretty buggy. But now that I'm on the third version I can definitely say this year is weird and slightly unstable and you probably want to skip them until September when the final versions come out (hopefully they fix all the bugs I'm seeing now).MacOS 27Apple tells you to only load a beta computer OS on an "extra" non load-bearing computer like a spare laptop or something. For the past decade, I did just that, using my travel laptop to test out beta developer versions, but a couple…