For what it's worth, my "dumpster fire" comment encompassed far more than just window management (and admittedly extended to Apple hardware and Apple the company). See my comments elsewhere in the thread if you're curious!

Re window management specifically: your "it's not the same" comment are my exact sentiments!

Even if you can hack together some other MacOS-specific window management solution, what I'm finding game-changing is my laptop and my desktop behaving in the exact same way (same OS, same dotfiles, same programs/bins/utils).

Not only "behaving" in the same way, but also configured in the same way (meaning I don't have to maintain two separate configurations for two entirely different managers).

I don't know, I realize my perspective isn't shared by everyone (and even the HN audience specifically), but I'll probably never go back to using a laptop without Linux on it. For a long time, I avoided going down that path because I knew how big of a PITA getting laptop device/drivers to work was (whereas it's generally far simpler on desktop), but that's become less and less the case over the years, to the point that I spend less time configuring Linux than I do overriding all of MacOS's default settings/configuration.