I Finally Ditched Overleaf for a Local LaTeX...

Last October, I was thirty pages from finishing my master's thesis draft when Overleaf hung. Not an error. Not a crash. Just... spinning. "Compiling" for four minutes. Then a timeout. I refreshed. It happened again. It was 11 PM, the university Wi-Fi was holding up fine, but Overleaf was clearly under load. Apparently thesis season is thesis season for everyone. That night, I decided I was finally going to figure out local LaTeX on my Mac. What I Actually Needed I'd tried local setups before. Th