I've been running macos since 2012 and never had such issues. That's over 10 years ago.
Of course, OS X is older than that, and as far as I can tell, it never had such issues.
And as the sibling to this comment points out, Pop only officially support their own hardware, where this would never happen.
Edit: It also seems worth pointing out that the reasons these conversations are had is that it can be fixed. Mac and Windows? Not so much in my experience. Working in a repair shop I have seen some things out of both of those that make bug's like this one look minor (remember when Windows updates decided user data didn't matter?), and there's nothing/not much you can do about it.
Keyboard navigation (moving between or selecting words or lines of text) still seems somewhat hit or miss even though it is better than when I left Mac OS behind in 2012.
Of course this might not matter to you (and I even know some of you prefer the separation between "application switching" and "window switching") but for many of us these are way larger issues than having to fix a config file once.
Only if you install it on a very short list of approved hardware. Try to install OS X on a random Dell laptop and you will have far greater challenges than what most Linux distros will give you.
Also, WiFi support is a nightmare. Worse than I've ever had it on Linux.
Even vanilla Windows installs don't always work that well.
Do you expect to run OS X on just about any machine and not have any issues?
They're under no obligation to test it on Dell machines, of course. The community should be doing that.
Definitely don't think System76 has that big a QA team, though, will have to be community supported as well.
OS X is great for specific use cases and specific users. If you want Linux, OP is saying PopOS is the gold standard. OS X isn’t exactly in the same vein.
You're right that it still sucks, but this isn't a matter of Wayland being insufficiently 'advanced'. This is about relationships between enterprises as much as it is about technical challenges.