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If given the choice between the plague and cholera I might choose cholera, yes. OSX is a proper Unix (even if buried under layers of Apple), OTOH nowadays there's perfectly functional WSL so... tough choice.
Anyhow programmers aren't Apple's traditional professional users, their home turf is mid-range graphics workstations, they famously got big on PageMaker, even invented the term desktop publishing. Then, Photoshop. Making glossy magazines as opposed to word processing which quickly became an IBM PC domain or actual graphics where you'd get an SGI workstation and studios that started out on Houdini, Maya etc. now use Linux.
That workstation mid-end got squeezed out by Moore's law and Adobe or ZBrush isn't going to save them because Microsoft exists.
Meanwhile, they pin-point focussed on the "ohhh, shiny" target group over the last decades.