I get what you’re saying but I find GNOME more evocative of iPadOS than macOS. It’s almost exactly what you would get if you tried to create a desktop environment using an iPad as a starting point.
macOS still has several traditional desktop affordances that are eschewed by GNOME, like full menus (not just hamburger junk drawer menus) and customizable toolbars.
I wish Gnome folks did not keep on copying it more and more. I see why it's easier to do, but KDE somehow manages.
(And if one thinks that Apple UX design can't go wrong, remember Macbooks from a couple of years ago.)