The Mac experience peaked some years ago in many ways. Now when the hardware is back on track we can at least enjoy that plus some good MacOS features, and ignore or tweak the not so great stuff.
They have certainly lost a lot of quality in the OS and 1st party apps, but the summed experience is still more positive than negative imo. My mbp14 is the most (or maybe 2nd to most) enjoyable of all my 8-9 machines since the G4 days.
And that's coming from a software conservative :) I hate when an update changes stuff without obvious improvement.