Execution is what matters, not ideas. Anyone can half-ass an idea and say “I did it first” but whoever comes along and does it right is who gets remembered.

I tried that but the app froze

Do people these days still know O’Reilly books? I’ve seen a few posts over the past couple years that are essentially asking “how did you figure out how to program without Stack Overflow?”

Neither of those assertions are true, I don’t think you’re arguing from an informed position.

I’m more comfortable with macOS than Windows and find many of the UX patterns on Windows to be grating. It doesn’t mean Windows is insane, just that I’m more accustomed to the macOS patterns.

FWIW the Dock can be hidden, and the menu bar at the top can hide as well when an app is in full screen mode.