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None of those things are at all desirable. setuid uucp? Security nightmare. strictatime? Not needed. Linux doesn't do it either.

Apple has retained the good parts of UNIX and ignored the shitty parts. In the end, it is more UNIX than Linux is.

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Yeah, like a really shitty ancient version of bash. If that's what UNIX means to you, I'm not gonna yuck your yum, but what could be more UNIX like than letting license issues make life worse for your users.

Hey, at least it isn't *BSD! (Or, well...)

macOS switched to zsh a while ago. i don’t see what that minor choice has to do with being or not being UNIX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix but if you've not seen them before then maybe start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

I know enough about Unix that shipping an outdated binary in the base system is entirely unsurprising :-)

bash doesn't mean UNIX, in fact UNIX means being able to chose your shell.

I'm fairly certain that the UNIX standard isn't limited to the manpage for chsh.

Then you are also fairly certain that it doesn't include latest version of bash, rather sh, and are aware of what the difference means.

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