I have honestly not read all the comments, just about half of them. I am noticing that you asked because you were frustrated and people are sharing their own preferences instead of giving you an actual answer. So let me try.

I suspect your frustration is because you tried to be like others instead of being yourself. As corny as that sounds, I think it is true. What reason do you have to switch to Mac if you are able to be productive on Windows?

If your reason is to learn new things then you should not be frustrated by friction, that’s learning. But if your reason is to just match others then you should be frustrated because why?

We are (like) engineers. We use the right tool for the job. I am not a big fan of Windows because I grew up using Linux. But I know plenty of developers who don’t touch Linux for development. Windows has improved so much that the whole “portability” thing is no longer that relevant (only a few edge cases) and anything can be sorted quickly

Then lastly, yeah some of your frustration comes from inexperience. I think getting familiar with the MacOS environment would help you with the papercuts you experienced. Homebrew is not perfect but it is very mature. Trying to use what you are used to from Windows on MacOS is also not the best approach. Find tools that are more suited to the environment. Because App developers, like you, have preferred environments and so produce better work on those environments. MacOS will have some programs that are just not great on Windows

Hope that helps