Indeed, power users are not really what Apple optimizes for. They try to dumb everything down, and it helps them in their ultimate goal: get more market share.

Indeed, power users are not really what Apple optimizes for. They try to dumb everything down, and it helps them in their ultimate goal: get more market share. You've actually stumbled upon the least configurable components of macOS: the Window Manager, and the Desktop Environment. On Linux you can choose your own, and you have so many different paradigms. I still miss i3 wm.. On macOS you don't have this choice, and you have to use apps to get to the workflow you need. I was a Windows power user for a few years, and now I use both Linux and macOS daily since 6 years ago. In the end, I feel more productive on macOS nowadays, mostly because there are many quality apps to get anything I want done, I don't have to worry that basic OS function will stop working when I update some dependency, and there are some macOS-native features that really improved my workflow. For example I didn't know how useful Live Text would be until the first time I noticed that Command-F search in Safari also searches text in images, or when I double clicked on a phone number and I could just call it with my iPhone (which was in another room) but keep talking from the MacBook. I can't even imagine how I would do that on Linux (surely doable, but nothing beats "already done and usable"), and it's just one of many features like that. I will end with some more software recommendations: yabai for window management (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) and skhd for hotkeys (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd) They are more Linux-like, using config files, free and easy to forget they aren't native.