Oh man, I totally get it. I worked with all mayor systems and desktop environments and the current state is really wierd. Mac has so many quirks that day to day users learned to live with. Windows is like a mashup of UIs since Windows 3 so isn't much better. I use Ubuntu with Gnome as a daily driver at work and I barely tolerate it, for example the build in file browser, Nautilus, has less features than Windows 95 file explorer, which was developed nearly 3 decades ago. I won't mention Snap wierdnes. KDE is stable like an egg standing on its end, but has the most appealing interface. Overall, I came to the conclusion that Windows is the one actually designed for work, it's stable, has build in Linux and simply don't get in the way.
> "Mac has so many quirks that day to day users learned to live with."
Depends on where you started. I've been a Mac user for over 30 years; Windows to me is a frustrating, unintuitive mess. That doesn't mean that it actually is a frustrating, unintuitive mess. I'm just not used to using it. Please, you all call yourselves "engineers". Well, engineers deal in facts, can you all stop posing opinions as facts.
I agree with everything you said about Linux distros.
