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My dislike for MacOS started with this. I had a WordPerfect document, and WordPerfect, but it wouldn't let me open it because it insisted that it wasn't a WordPerfect document. And despite the fact that I could open it in WordPerfect on other computers.
It's always been this "I know better than you, idiot" mentality that drove me away. I went back, briefly, when businesses started letting employees request MacBooks instead of Windows - given those two options, OSX is preferable. Plus, it was Darwin by then, and the important UI - the shell - was essentially POSIX.
I well always resent MacOS having the temerity to think it knew better than me, especially in cases when it was wrong but you just could not force it to do something.