OpenGL is available on macOS. The best-on-platform for Windows is DirectX12, also closed.

There are many things to complain about but spearheading a new type of graphics apis with Metal (before Vulkan and dx12) should not be one.

It’s very telling when people tell me that I have Stockholm syndrome instead of considering the possibility that different people have different preferences and priorities. Especially when your preferences seem to revolve around a particular ideological bent.

I have no idea what “ridiculous restore mode” you’re referring to, but in 15 years of full time Mac use, including using Apple Silicon Macs from around 6 months after release, however many years ago that was, I haven’t run into a situation where this has been necessary.

Please don’t devolve another discussion into 2000s Mac bashing. Especially when your ostensible worldview is predicated on a bunch of people being stupider than you.

If you have never used the restore mode, how can you judge whether it's usable or not?

The ridiculous restore mode you’re speaking of is a break glass in case of last resort type thing, where you the user have screwed up your disk so badly that you have messed up the recovery partition and system , which is as simple as holding cmd and R during boot to get into.

In fact they really went the extra mile to ensure that you cannot possibly brick a Mac (or iDevice) no matter how hard you try. Having to do an emergency restore usually needs specialized hardware anyway; they ensure you can do it with widely available equipment. Go the Apple store if all else fails you.