I've been using Macs since around '91 - all through the really bad times for Apple. This wasn't about being absurdly loyal, it was simply that I was familiar with how things worked and liked the software. As time went on I also realised that the machines I outgrew still worked perfectly well and so the majority of my Macs were passed on to family and friends to carry on being useful for many more years. Yes they looked OK, but primarily they
worked and kept working long after friends' "off the shelf" store bought PC's and laptops had died and burned. Of course the same does not apply to nerdy folks building custom PC's, but that's comparing apples and oranges
For me the difference between a hackintosh and a macintosh is simply how many hoops I have to jump through to get it to work reliably. Reliability is key as my main hobby/semi-pro work is working with audio. With audio there's a ton of highly technical things to focus on and the last thing I want to be doing is messing with the computer when tracking or mixing.
One could argue that Apple themselves created the current interest in hacking their OS - if they hadn't made a bunch of extremely cynical decisions that scrapped support for perfectly useable machines (such as my Mac Pro 1,1 which I'm writing this on in El Capitan) I personally probably wouldn't have given much thought to alternatives. In other words, for nearly twenty years I was a perfectly happy Mac user. Apple made a series of decisions that forced me (despite my essential laziness) to look elsewhere for answers.
The other side of things is that at some point Apple went insane with the whole form over function thing: deliberately designing computers to work less efficiently and reliably in order to meet some stupid aesthetic.
I accept I'm a little slow so I only properly realised this the first time I took apart my 2011 MacBook Pro and saw first hand how incredibly bad it's cooling was - while at the same time clearing half a ton of dust blocking the tiny vents from the fans. Since then of course the discrete graphics GPU has fried, kinda making the point for me. So then I'm booting into archlinux to do hacks on the EFI to switch off the discrete graphics and I have an HD3000 MacBook "Pro" - which is only even slightly useable because its now effectively a hackintosh! Certainly if left up to Apple the machine would have been scrapped.
So both my current legit Macs are only working cos they're "hackintoshed" - and that's not counting the mac mini we have doing media server duties (Free NAS), and an old Core2Duo MacBook (though still 64bit!!!! Grrrr Apple!!) given a new lease of life with Ubuntu Mate/Studio.
I guess my point here is that I really didn't want to learn all this stuff about hacking Macs or the OS - if Apple had behaved differently I'd probably still not have given it a second's thought. I guess you reap what you sow.