I can't even describe how much frustration this caused me when I worked at the RIOT project. macOS was by far the most problematic development platform to support. Even Windows was far friendlier since it has WSL which is officially supported.
In most situations (not mine), you can likely depend on MacPorts, Homebrew, or Nix to provide more up-to-date version of the tools you need that what Xcode provides. In that way, it's similar to WSL in that you can augment your environment to get the proper Unix tools you expect.
