"Imagine if I was a novice user...yikes! Support calls, yelling, crying, and more. Woohoo! What a party. I still consider myself to be relatively new to the Mac, although I do have familiarity from yore. Nevertheless, this is not the intuitive and simple way Macs should work."
Actually, right there you are claiming that this is a fault with the MacOS. This was your own fault, and was maybe partially contributed to by a 3rd party application, but it had nothing to do with the core MacOS. If you are going to install 3rd party tools to screw with your system, take responsibility for what happens when you do, don't try to blame the operating system.
And They Said the Mac Was Intuitive