[danaris]

...took what out of macOS? It definitely still does "smart charging", keeping it at 80% until just before when it has learned you are likely to unplug it.

If you have a highly irregular schedule, then sure, this may not be helpful. But I find that my and my wife's Apple Silicon laptops are usually kept at 80% unless we explicitly tell them to "charge to full now".

[_fw]

You can’t explicitly tell it to hold at 80% using system settings, when once you could. Glad it works for you and your wife.