For BT clients, macOS really has just two choices, qBittorrent and Transmission. Transmission I no longer support because of their snarky customer attitude. qBittorrent is mostly wonderful, has great support and responsiveness to bugs, except on macOS, only because of the lack of mac developers, not because of lack of desire to keep it updated. So I have resorted to running qBittorrent for Linux using Linux virtual machines on Apple Silicon. Stable, fast, plus because it is a VM and Linux, I'm not too concerned about downloading malware etc, because I simply reset the VM after each use, and, well, it's Linux. I use Parallels and VirtualBuddy for creating virtual machines. Parallels is paid, and that's okay because I have to run Windows 11 ARM VMs. VirtualBuddy is absolutely free, and supports macOS and Linux virtual machines (no Windows). I've had no issues running VPN software within virtual machines (you should always use a VPN with a torrent client.).
Keeping an eye on a new torrent program, Harbor. Long way to go, bare bones, no bells whistles, but very promising if the developer keeps it up, open source, Swift, macOS native, and free. Look up Harbor here on MU.