Perhaps one of the biggest updates to macOS Monterey is the addition of Universal Control. Universal Control macOS Monterey: Universal Control demo from WWDC 2021. Later, however, Apple made that combined tab bar an option in Safari, rather than forcing customers to use it.
Originally, the new Safari had a design that combined the tab bar and the URL bar, which looked very streamlined, but made Safari harder to use for some.
Safari is getting a major redesign for macOS Monterey - and it has customers a little divided.
