Plenty of window management apps and tools available. Rectangle, for example.
> I hate how there end up so many icons in the menu bar which are entirely unhelpful.
The only ones I cannot seem to be able to remove trivially are the clock and the Control Center. Solved in mere seconds by typing "menu bar" into the System Settings search. You could literally even just hold cmd and drag almost any icon out of the bar. Not to mention any of the more involved menu bar customization apps and tools.
Why does it seem like such "macOS bad Linux good" comments always compare the default macOS experience to a personalized Linux environment?
Why does an out-of-the-box Mac have to fulfill the same requirements we spent hours configuring for on a Linux machine?
Where does the capability or mindset to install a tool disappear when we move from Linux to macOS?