I couldn't agree more. As I've gotten older I care far less about being on the bleeding edge or pushing a system to its limits and more about just being able to

I couldn't agree more. As I've gotten older I care far less about being on the bleeding edge or pushing a system to its limits and more about just being able to sit down and work. I don't have the time or energy to configure a linux DE and keep it updated/working and Windows isn't something I care to ever touch again if I can help it. Mac gives me a unix-y (FreeBSD) environment that feels sane and most of the time it "just works". I think a lot of people write off the (G)UI/UX of macOS as toy-like but one thing I've also learned is I like looking at pretty things. Sue me. I like my apps to look nice, I like my UI to look nice, and I like when it all feels connected/consistent. Of course there are outliers but far fewer than when I look over the wall at linux/windows. It really comes down to (for me) "where do you want to spend your time?". For myself I want to spend it producing and doing the things I love, not endlessly configuring or fighting my OS, macOS lets me do that. It's not perfect and I won't pretend it is, but it's leaps and bounds ahead of the competition when it comes to things that matter to me. One quick anecdote, when my sisters went to college my dad got them Macs (after being a windows-only household growing up and him only starting to using Apple products after I did) and he still tells me how happy he was with that decision. He will say "Do you know how many times I got called to do tech support? Zero, not once". He and I both had the "tech support" role in our friends/family groups so we both knew what a windows computer would have resulted in, we had lived it for other relatives in and out of college, heck I rebuilt a ton of friends computers when I was in college due to virus/malware/slow/etc. The people that would buy a new $400-$500 dollar bargain bin laptop every 1-2 years in college when their previous one fell apart yet would make fun of the cost of Apple computers drove me up a wall seeing how I had the same laptop all 4 years and it cost ~$1K (and it felt great to carry and looked good to boot). Do I believe that you can game better on windows or customize linux to be your personal nirvana? Absolutely, but neither of those things matter to me, I just want to be able to sit down and produce, not be digging in config files to figure out why my graphics card isn't working.