> I have spent a considerably less amount of time configuring my workstation
Complete opposite for me.
On NixOS I enable KDE with i3 and rofi, and there's little to adjust.
On MacOS, I need yabai, karabiner, raycast, shottr (costs money), one of those hideous tray management tools that work by capturing your screen (facepalm)... For yabai I need to disable system integrity protection. With every update my setup breaks, and I need to spend countless hours debugging and setting everything up again... And it's still subpar to what I could have in Linux.