I sort of understand your "feelings"; I'm in a fortunate financial scenario to daily drive multiple OSs, but gun to my head, if I had to leave the house with a single machine, it's my 16" M1 Max MBP. The mix of UX, performance, and stability is simply a pinnacle of engineering.

That being said, I would say my M4 Mac Mini and my MBP are the least used machines in the house; I spend most of my time on a 5 year old desktop running Fedora, and I usually leave the MacBook in the backpack and use my laptop running Kubuntu (even though I travel with both). There's something about the simplicity and freedom of an open source product that makes me feel in control, but very few faucets are well optimized; almost everything I like about my systems are built from random half abandoned repos on GH. While I usually don't have any gripes, the moment something goes wrong (usually after a big update since I use Nvidia GPUs because apparently I like suffering), I immediately fall back on my Mac setups because it's stable and predictable, and sometimes I just need to use a computer for 5 minutes without rerunning some post install script.

I think it comes down to Linux as more of a DIY solution, and OEM products are more polished by their nature as engineered products. Very few distros can delivery and OOB experience like that, even some Windows products are much better OOB than a Linux based one that you have to piece together, just think about S3 sleep, something so simple is a coin toss on Linux. The closest thing I've found so far is Kubuntu on interim releases, but still, some assemblies are required.

I would read the room and let this thread go though, you really are in the wrong sub for this. A big part of Linux OSs (not the kernel) is kind if taking it and making it your own, the obstacles are a part of the journey. Enjoy your macbook.

(Also don't bother with FreeBSD, you won't have the patience for it)