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Re:The rise and fall of the standard user interface by graemep on Thursday January 25, 2024 @12:23PM (#39132038)
Out of the box configs need to be familiar, and most uses are accustomed to Windows. Doing otherwise is a barrier to new users.

I cannot tell how well the distros that do mimic MacOS do it, but from what you say it is not well enough (at least not Pantheon).

Re:The rise and fall of the standard user interface by jwells89 on Thursday January 25, 2024 @12:31PM (#39132118)
The problem with Pantheon is that it only captures the skin-deep aspects of macOS. Power user features and progressive disclosure thereof (which are a big reason why macOS has a technically capable userbase) are mostly stripped. Like GNOME, it doesn’t support minimizing windows for example and not only doesn’t have a global menubar but eschews menubars entirely, with functions that don’t fit in hamburger menus either getting buried or cut entirely.