it wasn’t ported from the mac - or even copied from it - and whilst I agree it can be frustrating and I’m really not trying to denigrate anybody’s views, I think it’s important to have some perspective on this.
Some of the windows behaviour is non-standard but it’s not unusable.
In the very, very long lists of feature requests and annoyances that get posted on this forum (and boy there are a lot of them!) - the windows handling is way down the bottom - so it seems most would settle for it and consider improvements and additions in other areas to be more important.
Incidentally @HowlingUlf, on a more positive note, did you see this post from SB
why not put in a proper feature request and ask people to vote for it ? 