I understand your particular pain, but I want to share the flip side of it. QMK devices are great for me as a Mac user because it's very rare that any of the custom firmware configuration tools for input devices get ported to macOS. But QMK has a port and if a device wants to present itself as just a bog-standard USB device with all the "translation" happening on the device rather than requiring custom drivers and additional software on the OS side, everything just works. I presume users of other non-Windows OSes have similar takes, and I really hope the QMK trend gets picked up by Logitech, Kensington, and MS's hardware team eventually so that more hardware on the mass-market/affordable end of the spectrum can also do these things.