I'm lucky I guess in that my mouse preference is actually the Apple mouse. I've tried a bunch of others of the years and keep coming back to it.
I'm definitely aware of the shitshow that is peripheral drivers. It's always been bad, but now it's just awful awful awful. Even if someone introduced a mouse that appealed to me, I'd be hard pressed to bother given my suspicion that the software required would be terrible.
In any event, yes I did not know they stopped shipping them but that is only a good thing. I think the polite way to describe the quality of those mice is not very good. Several more impolite terms come to mind.
I traded my own iMac in a few years ago, but got to keep the peripherals. I'm not a huge fan of the, uh, flat ergonomics, but it is an amazing mouse when you need one to throw in a laptop bag, and the sensors are top notch when it comes to actual tracking. If only it came in a more ergonomic shape...
I mean the Magic Mouse -- the one that makes some people enraged because you can't use it and charge it at the same time. (Turns out: this is literally never a problem.)
Of course, mice (and keyboards, and pens, and notebooks, and and and and and) are intensely personal items, and what works for me is just that: what works for me. I don't really use Windows except in remote desktop sessions, so compatibility with MSFT doesn't matter to me. I don't play games on my computer much anymore, but when I did I used a trackball that, if memory serves, didn't require any drivers.