which FYI Apple would hang you for

They've never sued anyone merely for using Hackintosh, let alone instructing others how to do it. They only sue when you try to sell a hackintoshed machine. Either way, the EU forbids companies from determining what a user can and cannot do with software that they have acquired legally. MacOS itself is free, so that's all good. I wish Apple good luck trying to override the fucking EU.

MacOS runs just fine for me, including on the Thinkpad X220, which is a laptop from 2011. If you buy modern, compatible hardware, you aren't going to have a problem with it. I use both OSes and find that macOS provides a full DE while still feeling lightweight. In GNU/Linux there's an option between lightweight and heavier environments, and I experience stutters with the latter, specifically when I enable compositing on KDE. I'm glad GNU/Linux works for you, though.

You're right about servers, I'm not contending with that. Note that I'm not arguing macOS is an overall better system.