okay, i questioned whether i need all that stuff and i've landed on still wanting the same set of capabilities i currently have at the cost of what used to be a reasonable number of menu bar icons.
so now what
Tame the clutter, by using another menubar app to hide the overflow.
Examples:
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
https://www.macbartender.com/
Tame the clutter, by using another menubar app to hide the overflow.
Examples:
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
https://www.macbartender.com/