I ran a hackintosh for years. It used the retail OS plus some custom kexts. My last OS was Snow Leopard before I sold it. I got a real MacBook Pro with Lion and

I ran a hackintosh for years. It used the retail OS plus some custom kexts. My last OS was Snow Leopard before I sold it. I got a real MacBook Pro with Lion and hated hated hated it. Hated it so much I started running Linux in a VM again and eventually switched to a Linux desktop again. I don't know how well the modern macOS versions as Hackintoshes, but I suspect the community is still strong. The current challenge is probably around all the specialized hardware security and encryption chips on modern Macs, as well as the newer restrictions on signed/unsigned kexts and all the recent kernel/system API lock downs.