rant: MacOS modifier key hell and stupidity with the task switch

Rant I posted in the Lost In Mobile WhatsApp group:

Man, why are MacOS modifier keys such a hot ball of flaming fetid dumpster garbage? I was idly searching "is there anyway to get cmd-tab to act more like clicking on the dock and open a window if there is none"  (and that's a big design fail in MacOS I'd say- returning to the app from a quick cmd-space Spotlight command also does the logical thing of opening the main or a blank window if nothing is open... 

According to StackExchange you can "Cmd-Tab to the app, but then, before releasing Cmd, press Alt. Then release Cmd while holding Alt. The window should pop open." but that understates the complexity... "alt" is actually not its own damn key, it's an (ironically) alternate option for the option key - you have to hit "fn"! So, holding down fn-option-command-tab, and then release things in the right order to get it to work... what a mess.

And in exploring Keyboard preferences to see if maybe there's a way of fixing the shortcut, I see I can also "Tun Docking Hiding On/Off"  is  ⌥⌘D ... trouble is.... ⌥ is not even labeled on the modern keyboard, it's secret, old school code for "option".  What kind of esoteric nonsense is this? It's like a secret handshake just to understand what the preference means.

People suggested HyperSwitch, a cousin of the HyperDock app I've grown to dig (mostly for its window wrangling keyboard shortcuts)... that does the Right Thing of opening a new finder window or restoring the Calendar app window if I happened to close the window itself - which, again, should be a BLEEDIN' OBVIOUS thing to do especially since the dock and spotlight do just that, and the usecase for "switch to no window" is ridiculously small. Also HyperSwitch adds option-tab that cycles through windows instead of apps... I used to prefer old school Windows task/window centric approach but now I find it faster to use Mac's app-centric point of view.