Some of that must be due to the features and gestures MacOS offers but I generally use my personal laptop at home without an external screen, keyboard, etc. because I never wanted to use a Windows / Linux machine with the trackpad a second more than I had to. I didn't expect much from my Macbook when I bought my first one and ended up using it almost exclusively with the touchpad only. From what I hear Microsoft's been trying to catch up with some new updated drivers, though according to LinusTechTips, they're still not there.

I used to have a Logitech G700 mouse for my old Windows machine and it had this ability to unlock the scroll wheel for smooth / fast scrolling but it was a disaster due to Windows' shoddy support of it. More often than not it just overloaded the window with scroll events and it bingbonged from the speakers for a while until the scroll events stopped. Glad to see that at least that's getting addressed.