Depends on your sensitivity to ergonomic issues as well.

Millions of people use MacBooks happily, but I personally hate them for their glossy displays, shallow keyboards and sharp palmrest edges (perhaps related to my hand size, since edges on a 14" MBP cut into my palms). MacOS also stopped having subpixel rendering, so any non-300dpi external screen (meaning all non 8k screens in existence) will show fuzzy fonts.

If you are looking for a machine to use on the go, I'd steer away from them for the above reasons.

For hacking, you also lose much of the access to internals too, or when you don't, it's way harder to get it than on a GNU/Linux system.