I’ve used PCs from windows 3 upwards (I was programming on SCO-Unix boxes before then).
All Microsoft windows software is cheap and nasty crap compared to the then current version of MacOS.
The current windows is just a pretty front-end on top of nasty rubbish from previous. I thought everyone knew that.
Even Visual Studio was garbage when I had to suffer it compared to XCode.
Windows 1, 2, and 3 were definitely awful. Windows NT 4 is where they finally did better. I often have said that Microsoft spends 100% of their time on 65% of the solution.
Their development environment is just as convoluted as any other. All of them are useful, none of them are intuitive, although I liked CodeWarrior for Mac. Apple's environment for System 7 through Mac OS 9.x was interesting.
Of the current macOS and Windows, I'm okay with both. They both work. Neither are perfect.
Given the Macs on Apple Silicon, it feels as though we're in the early Mac OS X days.