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If you feel like you can squeeze more out of an LP program then I highly recommend GZCLP - it has what you mention of working at higher and lower rep ranges (which works well for me as well). Due to starting and stopping barbell strength training a few times I've run starting strength, stronglifts, and GZCLP and the latter is definitely my favourite.
As the weight gets heavier, squatting every day, especially close to your max in a low-ish rep range will become hard to recover from. I squat once a week and see good progress. From looking at Juggernaut it seems like a decent program and you could just run it straight up.
I hesitate to make too many modifications to programming, unless they're made to be moved around a bit. If you run Juggernaut just run it as is for a couple months, if you feel like you need more volume (particularly on the squat) then look for another program.
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So I re-joined the gym as soon as I had my second dose in August and I have been on the Stronglifts app four days a week until now. I have reached a plateau and I don't see myself advancing much more between now and Xmas.
So I am thinking I could shift over to Juggernaut which I have used before. I like the variation with Juggernaut – how you do both high reps/hypertrophy at one end and low reps/strength at the other end. But there is a big difference in terms of SL making you squat every session, but Juggernaut requiring squats only once a week.
I've had no issues recuperating from the (near) daily squats so I could maybe tweak the Juggernaut program to include the 5 x 5 squat with every session? As a kind of warm up exercise? But then again, that will just keep me at the plateau I am at now.
Your thoughts please.