macOS refugees who are actually looking to switch OS would be better served to go with something mainline & well-supported, not a hot-off-the-presses revenge-release OS

Depends, maybe I should have said developers, and terminal enthusiasts. But sure, there's no one fits all. What's your go-to distro?

Debian: I can help friends get going on Ubuntu with the same skills I set up servers on any cloud service I might ever want to use.

If I wanted to do something less mainline, I'd probably be looking at NetBSD instead of arch if coming from macOS.

That said, Terminal.app in Tahoe is one of the few apps that got meaningful under-the-hood updates. If I was a macOS terminal enthusiast, Tahoe might not be all bad news.

Distro must be nice (it's Arch), DHH is just another extreme right wing rich guy afraid of immigration. So where is the freedom?