But things have gotten worse for developers recently with Catalina. I should note that I don't write mac-specific code - I mainly write things that target Linux servers.

The Mac has long been the best unix workstation on the market. It is solid, generally stable (although that's been slipping), and certainly has by far the best window manager. It has nice consumer apps for when you need them and is a solid, if not always up to date, unix. The hardware is generally great.

Then the sandboxing, weird parallel fire permission systems/quarantining, new filesystem conventions/restrictions and so on made it incredibly difficult to treat, well, like a unix workstation.

We'll probably keep using Macs at work out of inertia, and it is a lot easier for me to use other resources there. And my personal Mac laptop is probably good for quite a while yet - I tend to get 7+ years out of them. But this is the end of the road for me and the Mac. I require that my tools do what I tell them, not the other way around.