I completely agree. I like it much better then the stupid uniform menu of macOS. I use Manjaro XFCE as my only desktop OS and I like the UI for the most part. I just really dislike the inconsistencies.
Most people who see me using my computer thinks it looks "cool" and are wowed that my Thinkpad x220 runs that smoothly. They'd love to use it but I know that most people wouldn't put up with the 50 different ways to interract with very basic menues. Even file picking is a pain (no icons) and using arrow keys to navigate are broken, and the "recent" files don't actually work.
Edit: In general my issue is cohesion. Linux's Desktop enviroment is Good Enough (TM) for people and already looks fantastic. It just needs polish which it isn't going to get for a while in my opinion. I'd happily pay a good 10 bucks to someone whos willing to do it and it looks like Elemntry OS are the only people who are willing to. Sadly it's Debian based and I prefer Arch based distros.
base is arch, for sure.
I find the top bar menus well done on Unity compared to what we have on macOS. Take the sound menu, for example: on macOS you have a small slider to control the volume, and that’s all. You can’t even control iTunes from macOS’ topbar; you have to install a third party. On Unity I can control the sound not only with a slider but also by scrolling on the sound icon—no need to open the menu. Players like Spotify are nicely integrated by default and I have basic controls like play/pause/backward/forward as well as album artworks. That’s sounds like a simple menu but it doesn’t even exist on macOS nor (IIRC) on Windows.