they have really tried hard to make the entire OS less usable. I'm not an "iToddler", I paid for a Unix workstation and will not have lower information density forced onto me.

Same - 13" macbook screen becomes less functional when you fill it with padding.

Why should an iTerm user switch to ghostty? What do they gain by moving away from a highly mature, feature rich, native offering?

Not OP, but iTerm is the one I knew and it does it's job. No need to move away from something that works.

No ability to search the scroll back buffer. Stuck on the latest 1.2 release, there shall be no more, even though important bug fixes like memory leaks when using Claude are not backported. That’s a wild “go F yourself” decision. Ghostty crashed the other day for me, I have zero expectations that crash will be fixed for me until the 1.3 release. And when that release happens, the cycle of ridiculousness will restart. All the windows are gone when it crashes. I’m not ready to run Ghostty nightlies, last thing I need is the increased chance of crashing or bugs.

About to switch to native Terminal.app since it now supports truecolor. Or back to iTerm2.

Give Kitty a try. It's my go to on both Mac and Linux, I really enjoy it