Am I the only one using Markup in Preview?

I am sort of new to Mac and am grateful for iOs Markup. MacOS Markup in Preview, on the other hand, seems supremely disorganized and — looking at now-obsolete advice offered here — changed on whim. Control is elusive to change text color and size, for example. I can never tell if text or a shape is going to fill with color. Should I crank up Photoshop to write on a photo, or is there a way to use Markup on my iMac where the controls are predictable? It seems it’s no one’s job to improve this aspect of Preview, and running several memory-intensive apps still hampers the various versions of A-chips. I would like to use system graphics when possible.