Typical really, this has become the norm with apple i’m afraid. Releasing an OS every year for no apparent reason whilst still updating their previous versions.
I would avoid all OS upgrades until they have at least arrived at .6 of their respective version. There’s no surprise that Monterey went up to 12.7 now i believes it’s up to 12.7.1 STOP bringing out new Operating Systems and stabilise the current versions!!!