I don't love everything about MacOS, but the IMO the Apple ecosystem is worlds ahead of everything else when it comes to amount of time spent using it vs maintenance/tweaking/updating.
As I've gotten older, I have 0 tolerance for spending time fiddling with hardware or OS issues. (I've reinstalled/tweaked Windows so many times just to keep it running well, let alone sitting through install wizards or messing with drivers).
I don't need to shop around for the most reliable hardware, I trust Apple that it will be fast enough, ergonomics will be better than most, and most importantly - will just work.
I dunno. MacOS point releases take longer than entire Linux/Windows reinstalls. I clocked some at over 40 minutes.
I find I need a lot more 3rd party utilities to make it usable (why is there no HDMI/DP sound control? Why is window snapping so bad? Why no MTP? etc.) Then you have all the new "security" features that have made doing what I need to do way harder than it needs to be.
macOS updates happen overnight when the machine is idle unless you disable that. I've not witnessed a mac update in years now, it happens automatically, and when I open my laptop it's done and everything is exactly as I left it.
Same with Windows. And it can be done on Linux. Sometimes you may need to update manually, like if you turned off the computer while transporting it, you need to do something at 2 a.m. etc.
And everything is exactly as you left it except not really. Your REPL is now dead, Emacs has lost all its buffers, etc. I just have all the programs I had open but they all lost their state and so it's completely utterly useless. But hey they're all open and technically in the same position...
This is particularly true if you use external audio hardware. Will it work? Has Apple changed something underneath that stops the drivers loading? Do I need to buy the software again to use it reliably (eg. Parallels)?
I ended up ditching macos after over a decade of use and going back to Linux running Ubuntu Mate with a macos theme and switching to Windows for my audio hardware since I want to still use the same hardware longer than the 3 years Apple considers a "lifetime". It's kept my 2012 Macbook in service and maybe I'll get another 10 years out of it!
As I've gotten older, I have 0 tolerance for spending time fiddling with hardware or OS issues. (I've reinstalled/tweaked Windows so many times just to keep it running well, let alone sitting through install wizards or messing with drivers).
I don't need to shop around for the most reliable hardware, I trust Apple that it will be fast enough, ergonomics will be better than most, and most importantly - will just work.