It is mostly usable, however it’s significantly better on windows. I’ve used it on both platforms

My claims are that voiceover falls flat when something isn't accessible. Maybe the navigation is slightly more intuitive if you want to think of your UI as a hierarchy. It's not ever displayed as such, and it's simply confusing for most people. I've taught quite a few people Windows and OSX keyboard navigation, I can say for certain people picked up the former much faster. I'm also stating that having Voiceover OCR a graphic is not the same as being able to OCR a screen if you really -have- to and click on what you need. This enables me to navigate a lot more than I would otherwise be able to do in apps that mostly sometimes work. I've also never really had JAWS or NVDA lock up in that wonderful "ready busy ready busy" cycle that Voiceover has had for literal years, since 2009 when I bought my first mac until today when I bought the latest and greatest speedy m1 that is supposed to revolutionize the world. My fallback was to assume that I could just do everything via CLI, but true to form, voiceover only works about 50% of the time there and likes to just skip over and/or ignore huge chunks of text or make it look like there was no input, which is very confusing if you are from the *nix world and expect success to mean no output. Voiceover is usable, but you're very much stuck in a box if you use it when something doesn't work. People have invented clever workarounds, but if you're using it in a corporate/school environment, it's going to be harder to install those clever workarounds like VOCR since lots of people get a bit twitchy when some rando decides they want to install something on a computer they don't own, vs having it once you've gotten JAWS or NVDA installed. It's great for plenty of things, and the navigation in apps like mail and messages is really cool/easy, but I think we do people a disservice by saying that it's easy to use and easy to pick up if you're coming from a Windows world. If you want to know just how dependable and wonderful Voiceover can be, just ask each person who tells you if they have a VM running windows on their system for those things Voiceover is terrible at.

Unfortunately, I would have to disagree with you as a long-time Windows user trying to learn Mac OS. So much of the documentation I can find is either out of date due to changes in applications (iMovie, the main reason I bought the Mac), or due to outdated shortcut references (in Voiceover when referring to Drag and Drop). The thought that I might have to pay an extra £250 for Final Cut, on top of the £900 or so I spent on the Mac Mini, just to get functionality that sighted users can work with easily in iMovie by clicking and dragging fade handles for audio boggles my mind.

Not to say it hasn't been interesting learning a new OS, but it's definitely not been as smooth as others would make out.