But it in a sense is. I am or was using linux, windows, osx, ios, android for prolonged times and yesterday I unpacked and updated my iMac'10 (job reasons) and it still kicks ass. Of course it could be more configurable and less authoritarian, but nobody sold me an alternative that feels better just out of the box. I'm a full time user of windows and android right now, if that helps with "fanboy" part. It's not that configurability lacks smoothness and fell. It just happens that best ui provider/supervisor also happens to be the most walled garden, and competition is far behind. If only a part of efforts that e.g. gnome spends on removing settings went on making gnome better looking than apple... They had a decade and became "apple minus ux/ui".