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macOS has decades-long technical debt as well (NSCell can still be found in the UIs you see), yet it remains incredibly robust aside from the years when Apple shake it with big visual updates.

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It's incredibly robust compared to Windows

https://recorder.easeus.com/screen-recording-resource/macos-...

https://lifehacker.com/tech/mac-os-sonoma-update-fixes-scree... ... okay I don't even know what's this :D

Funny, for a lot of the functionality you get with Windows you have to pay some random dev for with MacOS. Window management alone feels like it's baby's first computer.

Last time I checked Windows still did not have anything like Quick Look, so for me it's the opposite. The only macOS enhancements I've been using since 2011 are Karabiner for keyboard customization and f.lux for warm colors at night.

of course, but that's on the feature completeness axis not on the stability (robustness), right?

I mean on macOS the Settings are so spartan it can really fit on an unfolded napkin. for power/battery management you need something like Amphetamine. Furthermore AFAIK there are no per-SSID network settings, so you either do DHCP or static IP. Have fun manually changing every time you go home-office. And so on.

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