I don't have this issue, I can interact with a window just by hovering over it with the mouse pointer
> - If you're running multiple displays macos for some reason always picks the most awkward display to open new windows in
You can set the default display in the settings (under arrangement, drag the white bar to the display you want to make the default)
Agree about the other issues though.
Hm, maybe it's just Firefox that's a bad citizen here, like with the global shortcuts.
I think the other poster has some addon installed and forgot about it.
But, having clicks work on hover instead of after focus is fine, and simply has a different set of trade offs.
You can also switch focus to a window without raising it by holding down Control+Option and clicking the window.
At any rate, a lot of these things can be chalked up to different philosophies, I think. Personally, I really don't like focus follows mouse; when I was using FreeBSD and Linux many years ago, I would try it and then end up disabling it after a short while.
It is worth noting that Terminal has a hidden preference for focus-follows-mouse:
defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -bool true