Not the OP but I agree WSL doesn’t offer much over Mac unless you care about GNU vs BSD.

I feel this one. The Finder and file-picking dialogs are genuinely awful.

Way off. Macs are BSD Unix computers saddled with a desktop whose opinions are both worse and more strongly held than those of GNOME’s. The steering wheel you’re begging for is the terminal. When you get everything done from there, it’s grand. iPads are devices made for consuming only. Macs are for creating.

.NET is just a runtime, not problematic at all, and definitely doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with ads, spyware, and AI.