Wow, I feel like I almost could have written this except I prefer Plasma/KDE to GNOME. I use Linux + Mac laptops somewhat interchangeably since 2012, and have

Wow, I feel like I almost could have written this except I prefer Plasma/KDE to GNOME. I use Linux + Mac laptops somewhat interchangeably since 2012, and have also seen the marked decline in quality. In fact, it seems like Linux has gotten better at almost the same pace (or maybe a bit faster) than macOS has gotten worse. The things that most frustrate me about Macs is that they've violated the never spoken but always expected "it just works" in so many ways. Things like how Thunderbolt Displays containing a USB hub which are Apple-certified handle re-connection to a Macbook, should "just work", but require fiddling every time. That's just one of numerous examples I could come up with. Apple historically was probably the best company in the world in understanding the full depth of what "User Experience" means, and it seems like they've really retreated from this position and are regressing to the mean.