My solution is... don't try to get the perfect setup.
Learn to just be happy with the defaults and get on with what matters - the work you're using it for. I change maybe 1 or 2 settings on a fresh macOS install and that's it. I don't even change the wallpaper.
> I just need to work
So don't distract yourself with trying to create the perfect setup! Worse is better.
The only war I'm fighting against is wasting my time with system setup.
1) constantly changing Willy Nilly
2) less than useable, né breaking functionality
A proprietary OS has no obligation to care about your needs, but more importantly, does not allow you TO do anything about it.
This is why I am moving everything to FOSS over the long haul
Their setup is really not working for me.
I want my desktop designed for me, from me. And if the OS thinks, it knows better than me, how to handle things and regulary rearanges or reconfigures, than screw this OS.
Right but when you write it out like that can you see how it doesn’t make sense to expect that from a company? Not reasonable to complain when you don’t get it.
"Designing the desktop" is also just aranging icons. That works since decades.
Well you could expect it but you probably wouldn’t like the price they quoted you.
To make the price realistic they have to design something which works reasonably well for millions of people, not perfectly for one person.
And I believe Windows for example has one. And windows still runs fine for me without cortana for example. But I have to resort to hacks, to make that change. So I do not demand more features here.
I demand just more control, what features I want to use. That was there and is getting removed for other purposes than complexity of developement.