Also incredibly expensive and practically out of reach for vast majority of world population.

You can't even uninstall the chess game in macOS without disabling system integrity protection. Even then if you do an update it will return.

Right? I just set up a new Macbook, and I was back to my usual setup within a day. There wasn't anything to disable. I just had to remove a few icons from the dock.

It's not everyone's cup of tea, but neither is Linux. I don't have the patience to find and maintain a Linux laptop, personally.