No, putting a ridiculous, monopoly enabled higher price on products that are about 10% better is cult and elitist. It's part of how they lock people in, mentally.

I don't agree that the products are nicer, either. Sometimes they have been, other times far from it.

Neither Windows nor MacOS have ever adopted a really obvious and simple UI design element used in X, that is so poorly known, despite its utility, that many Linux UI toolkits leave it out or make it default disabled - the "primary buffer". A buffer that copies when you select, and pastes when you click "button 3".

Most people barely even realise the scroll wheel on mice is usually also a button.

When I use either of these two popular UIs, I chafe severely at the number of keypresses and clicks required to copy and paste. This is doubly annoying when you have to enter 2FA TOTP codes, or type stupid words to confirm stuff (eg github repository delete). With X, I select the thing, and then bam, clicked. And thankfully, at least, many web UIs recognise and check if a complete input has been given for them and automatically proceeds.

On windows, select, right click, move mouse, select copy, move to paste location, click to move cursor, right click, select paste.

On mac, select, long click over select area, click copy, move mouse to paste area, click to move active location/window, long click for menu, select paste.

On trad X windows, select text, move to location for paste, middle click.

The only thing that makes the X way of doing it annoying is like the Java based UI used in Intellij that senses the small movements that inevitably are caused by clicking the clunky middle button scroll wheel and selecting something else and forcing me to start over.