10.6 (Snow Lepord) was seriously the last best macOS release. It had sane work spaces (rows and columns), and expose expanded out all your windows. Lion only had a single row, expose grouped all windows and you had to expand them individually and you couldn't downgrade back to 10.6 if you got a laptop that came with 10.7/Lion.

That was when I left my country and only had a macbook. It was about that time I started doing absolutely everything in Parallels VMs, one running Gentoo for all my dev work and one running Win7 for games (I played all of Mass Effect 1,2 and 3 entirely in VMs)

I still have a mac for some testing and shit but I hate almost everything about macOS today.