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I agree: this should be part of any reasonably secure OS. One thing you can do in absence of it is install Patrick Wardle's BlockBlock[0] which adds alerts for this behavior (also open source)

[0] https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html

Eh, I don't know if you can exclusively blame Apple for this one. I've observed the same behavior in the MATE environmment, both on Fedora and Pop! OS. I'd install Teams, it would autostart on login, I'd remove it from my list of startup items, then the very next time I fired up Teams it would reinsert itself. The only way to disable it was inside Teams' own preference dialog, which I found to be an extremely tone-deaf mechanic.

Get Sysinternals' Autoruns and simply just run it on a Windows system. There are so many ways executable code can run automatically without you knowing.