My current build should be my last one and it may be converted to a fully Windows only PC many years later, just like my first Hackintosh.
For my personal computer I used Mac from 1986 to 1990. Then, because of work, Windows until 2002. Then OS X on Apple and later a Hack. For a while in the 0ughts i used Windows for work and OS X for personal. Since late 2019, after 17 years I'm back to Windows.
So by luck I managed to avoid the sad late years of Mac OS. I was unemployed soon after 9/11 and needed my own laptop for prospective consulting work. I choose a Ti PowerBook G4 over a PC because I wanted to use OS X. By that time OS X had Microsoft Office so I could interoperate with client's docs. And it had a nice terminal app with a shell that ran in a FreeBSD-like environment, which was great because I used FreeBSD on my servers back then. I said then that OS X was the first version of UNIX with an acceptable window GUI on top. (I believe that's still true.)
Hacks are, in my experience, high maintenance. If you just want to get your work done then I don't recommend them. If you enjoy the hobby then go for it. Personally I ended up with a Hack because Apple stopped selling computers with specs that meet my needs at a price I can afford (I currently have 8c/16t and 64 GB memory, price that on the Apple store) and because I wasn't willing to switch to Windows.
I couldn't bring myself to deal with cmd shell, PowerShell, the ghastly Terminal app and the complexities of life with NTFS when my servers and VMs and the apps I write for them run Linux (I switched from FreeBSD to Debian a while back). These problems resolved with WSL and VisualStudio Code, which comes with a very good term app.
Overall, I have the sense that in recent years Apple has been moving from general computing towards luxury consumer electronics while Microsoft has moved to bridge the divide between the worlds of Windows in enterprise IT and the cloud, server and scientific software, much of it based on OSS, that uses libc and scripting languages. MS appears to have decided to address the
Duct Tape market (Graeber, David. 2018.
Bullsh1t Jobs *). This seems to be working well for both corporations.
Windows still does way too many BSODs and its support for audio is terrible. Apart from that it's ok and some things are better than macOS.
Apple's move away from Intel to the same kind of SoCs they use on phones makes sense for them and not for me. So this looks like the end of the road. Goodbye Mac OS! or whatever you call yourself now. It's been a long time since we got together in 1986. I know you won't miss me but I'll always remember you.
(* Did you know that tonymacx86.com displays the word BS as eight asterisks? Cute! Harry Hrankfurt would have trouble discussing his most famous work here, eh?)