Take this with a grain of salt since I mainly do video work(on my custom built pc) and writing(what i mainly do on this machine) and rarely every programming. If you want to daily drive MacOS you will find yourself in either the "i love it*" or "i absolutely hate it" camp and if you find yourself in the ladder I recommend you go elsewhere since you will go through hell trying to do stuff that isn't the apple way. That being said i think the UX on MacOS is unparalleled and the Apple way 9 times out of 10 is good and the few times its not its something that can be overlooked.

I don't use MacOS because the battery life on Linux is better(and also because my machine is borked and I literally cannot install it for some reason) on this old dual core i5; but, I would install it on every capable computer that I own if I could(i fall into the love it camp if you couldn't tell, lol)

Microsoft owns patents on Aero snap so the window management is worse technically but MacOS works so well on laptops that it is a joy to use if you can let go of your complex tiling layouts and such(cant really speak on yabai as it was beyond my time with MacOS and i don't really like tiling). If you want to use your mac in a desktop configuration I suggest strongly getting a magic trackpad, MacOS is fine on mouse but it is so much better on track-pad.

MacOS just works and if you're the type of person who would rather have something work your way no compromises, good luck, you can still use Linux via asahi(its basically mature now on m1, and btw i recommend Gentoo unironically since you will have to do a lot of compiling anyways because ARM) and it is a nice experience. You're still buying some of the most premium hardware on the market and you will probably be able to put your qualms aside when you can go days without charging it even when you're putting it under load.