So turns out #Blender is dropping support for Intel Macs in version 5 :/
I can’t blame them given how #apple is all in on planned obsolescence, I just wish that backwards compatibility was as important as new features in modern software. Blender has been so good at this from the beginning.
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/deprecation-and-removal-of-macos-intel-builds-in-blender-5-0/38835