There are things I dislike about macOS, but most of them seem like issues of personal preference or just some difficulty remembering the macOS way to do things

There are things I dislike about macOS, but most of them seem like issues of personal preference or just some difficulty remembering the macOS way to do things after many, many years using Windows and Linux. Occasionally there are head-scratching decisions about this or that application, and my wife gets completely twisted around trying to manage her windows--there is some impedance between mental models here for some users for sure. But Windows now? Holy cow, in Windows it feels like they're trying to screw with me at this stage. MacOS issues mostly seem like the people at Apple are trying to make a good product that their users will like. Microsoft seems like serving their end users is secondary to another goal (advertising revenue?) Mind blowing. Some people are commented about macOS being more locked down. I don't know what the current status is on Windows with regard to this, but the OS is a lot more locked down than an equivalent linux system. You can't dump onto the filesystem wherever you want. This improves system integrity and makes the devices more secure, you might not think this is worth it, but this point is inarguable. For the moment at least, I have been able to install any utility I want and have not felt constrained in the slightest. It's not a problem for me to install things into the non-system directories and modify my $PATH variable and the like. If this changes, I guess I'd have to regrettably move back to Linux, but while we should be attentive, there's no reason to hate macOS for what we fear it may become instead of what it is.