It's far from ideal, but my solution is a Mac (obviously MacOS has its own problems, but they're problems that don't bother me as much personally, and it could

It's far from ideal, but my solution is a Mac (obviously MacOS has its own problems, but they're problems that don't bother me as much personally, and it could of course also be replaced by Linux, some sort of *nix, etc) with a Windows VM. The VM has the bare minimum amount of software I need, access to a few folders from the host OS, other than that it's stripped to the bare minimum. It doesn't "fix" Windows, but the issues are much less annoying when Windows is just a launcher for the handful of things that I need it for.