As a Mac user of decades I rarely use the dock though, but mostly shortcuts and spotlight.
When I first got Fedora, I was pretty accepting of flaws in the system because I was so excited. Weird because, this is a negative.
But vocally, we love our brands we associate ourselves with. You are such a vocal proponent of Apple products, when Apple fails, you think it reflects on you and your decisions. You don't want to be a dolt that spent $3000 on a computer that can't do what Fedora can do better for free.
We give the companies we irrationally love, passes.
Pseudo psychological analytics of OS choices, coming from people who have neither an idea on other people’s use cases nor on their experiences are so disappointing and boring. Can we please invent a “-splaining” term for it?