Simply a difference in opinion here but I don't share any of your qualms with the MacBook Pro. I simply like macOS too much to change to anything else.
I had a MBP for about a year in 2014-15, and one thing really surprised me (as I got it for iOS dev and photography) is that if I had a finder window open in thumbnail/icon view I couldn't click one icon and then shift-click another and have everything in between selected. It just acts as though you'd click-dragged a square selection area. You had to shift to list view to be able do this. At first I thought it was me, as I was new to OSX at the time, so I went a-googling and I found out that no, that was the intended behavior. I mean, even linux has what I think is a standard UI behavior.
The interesting thing was going to the Apple support forums and seeing hardcore Apple fans saying that this is the correct behavior, better than what me and a lot of other people expect and, especially for working with directories of photos, needed.