I've had the same experience as you. Both windows and mac have bugs (or the software/drivers they use) and it is by far easier (for me) to debug and fix the windows problems than diagnosing that darned pinwheel of death. By far the most annoying experience is waiting for the laptop to be responsive after opening it up. Either the screen stays dark or the mouse/keyboard do nothing or both. I've learned to just open and go get a drink or something while it does "its thing"

I've been trying for the last few days just to make a bootable osx install flash drive so I can wipe and do a clean install before selling yet I can't get the thing to boot from it no matter which keys I hold during boot or resetting the PRAM. I'm sure its something stupid I did (am doing), but I would have been long past this step if it were a windows machine.

All Macs can remotely install OSX over the internet from the boot screen so you don't need a bootable USB. To manually start up from macOS Recovery over the Internet, hold down Option-Command-R or Shift-Option-Command-R at startup.

Thank you. I thought I was losing my mind, you were the first I read that mentioned Option-Command-R, which worked. Some guys had just Option, others were Option-R.