That was my experience during the Intel Mac era, when I did a lot of Windows development inside of a Mac VM. IMO, the reason is all of the 3rd party fluff and

That was my experience during the Intel Mac era, when I did a lot of Windows development inside of a Mac VM. IMO, the reason is all of the 3rd party fluff and poorly-written drivers that come with Windows PCs: Apple takes driver stability very seriously, and the drivers on a Windows VM are as vanilla (no fluff or features) as possible.