Also, if you have multiple Minecraft accounts, the official launcher is much slower to switch between them than it used to be with the old Mojang accounts. It was so annoying that I finally bit the bullet and switched to the MultiMC launcher, even though it's really frustrating getting the various plugins like Optifine working with it every time the game updates.
What's the problem with MultiMC? That all plugins are lost when you move from 1.18 to 1.18.1? I sometimes workaround that by symlinking the plugin/world/screenshot/settings folders together, but occasionally plugins are incompatible between patch versions.