I once spent hours trying to find out why apple's font rendering is so atrocious for a 1440p monitor on a m3 macbook air (reddit just keeps telling everyone to get higher resolution screens). Turns out it's related to the color scheme - the colors were fine, but the pixels are somehow located wrong, making everything look super pixelated.
BetterDisplay provided a workaround, but it needs to be selected every time the monitor is hooked up.
(I guess that's normal for Apple stuff nowadays - when I hook up my ipad to my projector, I need to tell it every single time not to use the audio output of the projector, but keep using the bluetooth speaker.)
They also removed subpixel antialiasing several years ago. Since then, “1x” screens (i.e. ~110ppi or lower) have looked like shit on macOS compared to the same display driven by Windows or Linux.
BetterDisplay provided a workaround, but it needs to be selected every time the monitor is hooked up.
(I guess that's normal for Apple stuff nowadays - when I hook up my ipad to my projector, I need to tell it every single time not to use the audio output of the projector, but keep using the bluetooth speaker.)