@slagathor69 looking at this more, isn't the best way to just change the pin version in setup file? As now what is happenin is you install tf-macos, tf-metal - with a pinned version, then you install DLC and over-write this with out apple_mchips versions... then re-install DLC again:

    - tensorflow-macos==2.9.0
    - tensorflow-metal==0.5.0
    - "deeplabcut[gui,apple_mchips]"
    - deeplabcut>=2.3.9

The best would be to just change the pins in setup.py to 2.9.0 and 0.5.0 if that is the only version that works for you? (note this is not true on my M2 chip macos).