2017 iMac = Born SLOW [EtreCheckPro report attached]

This computer is a base model iMac that was designed for doing basic web surfing and e-mail, its bottlneck is the glacially slow 5400 RPM HD. The only thing that can be done to improve this computers performance is to buy an external SSD and then clone (please use either SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner for cloning) the internal HD to the SSD and use the SSD as the startup drive. My recommendation is one of the following options:

1. OWC Mercury On The Go Pro and a OWC On the Pro Go Power Adapter OR
2. https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/S3D7P6G960/ and a https://www.amazon.com/BENFEI-Drive-Adapter-Cable-Compatible/dp/B07F7WDZGT/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=usb+to+sata+adapter&qid=1658451918&sprefix=%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-3

Also, please refrain from ranting. This is a violation of the Terms of Use you agreed to.

It is actually worse than "Base Model."

iMac (21.5-inch, 2017)

iMac Model: iMac18,1

2.3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 (i5-7360U) CPU: 2-core

It is the crippled "educational/institution" iMac with a laptop dual-core processor instead of the faster 4-core desktop processors used in regular (iMac "4K") base models. Benchmarks tell the sad story (from the MacTracker database):

With such limited resources, restarting more often than every 17 days is a good strategy:

System Software:

macOS Monterey 12.4 (21F79)

Time since boot: About 17 days

The only cost-effective way to make this badly under-equipped model is the external SSD solution rkaufmann87 has already recommended.