The window management grips are fair, although I don't find Cmd + ` to be particularly burdensome - it's right above tab on the keyboard, and my KDE Plasma desktop behaves the exact same way.
I don't know any Mac users who don't primarily use expose (or is it mission control now? The thing where it tiles all your windows open and you click the right one). Agree that windows should snap even when not fullscreened but I think expose solves this one better if you hand is already on the trackpad / mouse
I don't use it, in fact I thought it was mostly abandoned.
I hate window snapping behavior. I use rectangle, but cannot for the life of me figure out why it makes sense to snap a window to fullscreen on my 40" ultrawide the instant I get a window somewhere near any side of my monitor. Who works like this? You have to just leave a window floating in space if you don't want it fullscreened?
I use Moom personally to tile windows. I feel like no one tests the huge external monitor setup at apple compared to just using the laptop screen, despite it's near ubiquity among developers. Maybe the vast majority of mac's aren't used that way? But Mac pros are.
I do leave my hand on the trackpad on Mac a lot more than I do with Linux - partly because the trackpad on Mac is better than any other trackpad - but also because I think a trackpad is inherently slower and sometimes when I use a mouse/keyboard on Mac I notice the system isn't quite as responsive as it feels when I use gestures
