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Do you always have your applications in full screen? In my limited experience, that's the number one cause of grief with macOS' UX.

No, I do not, at least not on macOS. Because the experience is so horrible, perhaps.

I generally have one big window or two windows side-by-side on Linux though.

Have you tried yabai? MacOS still interferes with it sometimes, but overall it is not that bad.