[nijave]

I've had similar issues with Linux. Usually it's either put up with things breaking in mainline but use latest hardware or sit on LTS on older hardware with better stability.

Windows Performance Analyser and Windows Performance Recorder are pretty easy to use to troubleshoot boot performance and have a nice, simple GUI. For fairness, there's also systemd analyze on Linux

I haven't used Windows in ~5 years but at least with XP to 10 it used to be fairly well documented and not terribly hard to troubleshoot assuming you're willing to do some learning and leg work.

I'd say macOS is the worst in that department--things randomly break just like Windows and Linux but it's largely a blackbox.