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Nothing really! Saving one or two clicks for people that can't bother to learn any UI. The true automation I needed which leads me to leave macOS is workspace arrangement. Now I'm using Sway on Linux and I now that Super+1 is Emacs, Super+2 is the browser, Super+3 is where the terminals are,... Typing the same shortcut again brings me in the last workspace. And no sloooooow animations in the way.

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This stuff is readily available in the macOS ecosystem, but I don't fault anyone for jumping ship for these reasons. It's the same reason I did, before I figured out how to do it in macOS land by way of being required to work on macOS anyway.

I know how to them in macOS, it's just not pleasant. I still use macOS, but for very specific workflows. My daily computing is on Linux where I got everything to behave how I like.

You can set all that up on macOS and disable animations.

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