Apple's hardware these days is exceptional but the software left wanting in comparison. MacOS feels like it's been taking two steps back for every step forward for a decade now. I run MacOS, Linux w/ i3, and Windows all every day, and outside of aesthetics & apple integration MacOS feels increasingly the least coherent of the 3.

The same is true of the ipad which is just a miraculous piece of hardware constrained by an impotent operating system.