What I am recommending here is how I'd do it I had to use Armory on a Mac: build DB from source and run it on host (OSX) and run the client on a guest VM of some Linux distro (ideally Debian based, that's what I dev on).
Actually, the Mac OS versions you are releasing are usually working just fine 
good to hear. mind sharing the macOS / Armory versions that have worked well for you, and anything special you had to install or do?
my prior attempt was with armory_0.96.1_osx.tar.gz and a fresh OS X 10.11 install. also tried adding some of the more apparent missing dependencies; perhaps didn't try hard enough. i may give this another shot before going the full-on build route.