Understandable, from a software engineer's view, I get it.
IMO the biggest challenge is to fundamentally change how one thinks about given system. The goal is not to want to get it to behave like windows. But I understand it is hard for someone who used windows his whole life (I've been like that aswell). LibreOffice will never look like Office, downloading new software is not gonna be just running an .exe installer, and system settings will sometimes not be just "click here and it does what you want".
Not trying to convince you (or anyone), but just my two cents.
Not evangelizing in any way, but it is worth a try. If "back in college" was 10 years ago, I could hardly agree more that it was pain all around, but it is so much easier nowadays that even I without any advanced knowledge in Linux I could setup one of the harder distress (Arch) without any pain at all (thanks Archinstall).
This is more like "We don't sell cider because it might be harmful to your body with all the alcohol and how it tastes of apples, here have some pure ethanol instead"
It is a national emergency and most front line fighters are not volunteers. Russians are not, either, but most are willing because they've been brainwashed into thinking Ukraine shouldn't exist.
I am a man and I still crave his presence