“For some reason, the designers do not like cut-and-paste. “
Huh? I use cut and paste all the time.
Your other problems I can’t address.
You can cut-and-past text in a typed document, but you can't cut-and-paste a photograph or document from one place to another.
There is something tyrannical and user unfriendly about the design of Macs that is frustrating, inefficient, and infuriating.
Maybe everybody who buys a Mac should also get a Toshiba. This is probably not lost on the Japanese. In a few years, they'll probably come out with a computer that combines the best (and eliminates the worst) of both of them.