[cecida]

That's a good question, and I cannot really give you a coherent answer tbh. I just find Windows to feel more modern. I suppose a few examples are:

Snap/Windows Management in macOS is a pain.

Using Brew as a package manager isn't exactly a wonderful experience.

The taskbar feels pretty ugly and dated - that little dot, and then having both the top and bottom bar in play just feels outdated.

Even having to use Parallels is a bit of a pain - build a hypervisor into the OS.

I'm the furthest thing from a designer, and I understand that Apple went with a different UI paradigm. It's just starting to feel a bit left behind. It's still my daily driver though.

[Twisell]

Well if you find this design outdated, how can you be so easy in reverse with windows 10 where advanced settings often result in un-burying NT era hideous and messy interfaces?

[Illotus]

Because settings related stuff is needed so rarely.

[pram]

Pretty rich considering Windows 11 added a low-rent version of the OSX dock.

[sgjohnson]

And rounded corners everywhere.

This is because most of MS designers are using Macs.