With a .NET 7 iOS app, both dotnet and VS Mac end up building with the .NET Standard 2.0 Xamarin.Essentials.dll which does not have the Platform type. It does not use the xamarinios10/Xamarin.Essentials.dll which a classic Xamarin iOS project would use.

In VS Mac 17.4 preview 1 you can change the font size in preferences - Environment - Fonts - General Tool Window Text.

Updates are only shown for the selected NuGet package source. In the screenshot you have nuget.org selected.

In VS Mac 17.0 they are currently hidden behind a feature flag. Easiest way to enable this flag is to install the feature switch addin (main menu - Extensions) and then check DotNetWorkload in preferences, restart VS Mac. Templates should be in multiplatform or Other - Custom

Debugging a Blazor WebAssembly app in Visual Studio for Mac 8.8 preview 2 with Microsoft Edge

Multi-target framework support in the text editor - Visual Studio for Mac 8.3 Preview 2

Preview of LibMan support in Visual Studio for Mac

EntityFramework Core Powershell commands running in Visual Studio for Mac's NuGet Package Manager Console

Apple's Swift language server being used in Visual Studio for Mac

Currently looking at getting NuGet restore working for multi-target projects. No build support yet in VS Mac.

Bash language server being used in Visual Studio for Mac

TypeScript 'tcs watch' running in Task Runner Explorer - Visual Studio for Mac

Experimental Task Runner Explorer for Visual Studio for Mac. Supports TypeScript, NPM, Grunt, Gulp and Cake.