It's not at all the same.

Linux doesn't have SIP, or Gatekeeper, or XProtect, but you know it doesn't have any of those features. The developers know it doesn't have any of those features, so the absence of those features are part of the attack surface that the vendor (in this case the Linux OSS community) is aware of in the threat model.

If you have SIP disabled, no-one is trying to solve any problems that this causes for you. Anyone writing malware to target a SIP-disabled system knows Apple isn't trying to patch those issues because having SIP disabled is not a valid system state they're trying to protect. There won't be patches for you, and given that it's closed source, it's not like you can fix it yourself.