> Xcode
You either need it and can't switch to a non-Mac, or you don't need it. What's the argument here?
> the omnipresent ‘Dock’ (never used it once)
I hide mine. In 12 years on a Mac this hasn't been an issue for me since I turned Dock hiding on 5 minutes in.
> the omnipresent ‘Finder’
Finder isn't great, but I wouldn't say that the graphical file managers on Linux are particularly stellar either.
> black magic in the ‘Terminal.app’
What "black magic" is this? Also iTerm2 is a wonderful piece of software.
> Notifications (and its omnipresent menu hamburger icon)
Users do typically need to be notified about things. Is the problem that you want these somewhere else? Is it that you want to disable notifications? Because you do have full control over which apps can notify.
> App store
What's the problem here? Since they moved system updates back out of the AppStore, it's very easy to just ignore it entirely.
> start-up chord
If this is making it to your list of things you hate about macOS, you're really scraping the barrel.
Come on. Let's make better arguments than this. Let's be clear about our requirements, our biases, our specific likes and dislikes. This article has no substance to it, it's essentially clickbait.
There are many reasons to dislike macOS, there are many legitimate reasons to move to another OS on other hardware.
We make better decisions when we are more honest like this.