I am on the same page Rob, M1, 12.5
MacBook-Air:~ euripides$ /Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars Call to writableLocation without an application-based location. org.kde.kstars: Welcome to KStars 3.6.0 Stable org.kde.kstars: Build: 2022-08-21T16:15:07Z org.kde.kstars: OS: "osx" org.kde.kstars: API: "x86_64-little_endian-lp64" org.kde.kstars: Arch: "x86_64" org.kde.kstars: Kernel Type: "darwin" org.kde.kstars: Kernel Version: "21.6.0" org.kde.kstars: Qt Version: 5.15.5 Starting DBus