Yes macOS is now a certified UNIX, however just like its NeXTSTEP predecessor, its UNIXisms are meant to bring people into the platform, not to get them out of it.
Every single user experience that actually matters to Apple customers lives outside UNIX, relying on Objective-C frameworks, and nowadays Swift ones as well.
This is the mindset that those that buy Apple products as shinny UNIX keep failing to grasp, and then start blogging all those posts about going back to BSD/Linux, which they should have done in first place to start with, sponsoring BSD/Linux hardware OEMs.
Could you (or someone) summarize some important points? I greatly appreciate the link but I can't read 360 pages right now on a topic I have almost no background in.
I think you should properly read it and see if you still agree.
Granted it’s all very dated, so the idea of poor stability and taking up a lot of RAM is no longer an issue, but if you see what came before it and the comparisons you might wonder how we ended up where we are across all commercial operating systems.
