What's the benefit of talking about this? This is the way it works on a Mac, and it isn't going to change.
I'm not asking for it to be changed, I'm just asking what benefit does the Mac-way offer when compared to the "Windows-way".
I can think of lots of much worse things in Windows:
Your list is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand, and it seems that you are assuming that I hate how Mac works, whereas I prefer how Windows works? But anyway...
[*]What is the benefit of having a menu bar waste space in every single window?
The menubar is closer to the contents of the app. Also, per-window menubars work better with multiple monitors and it makes it more obvious to determine which app the menubar is attached to. that said, I prefer the Mac-menubar.
[*]What is the benefit of having a program completely quit just because you closed the last window? Now I have to wait for this crap to re-launch?
if you simply want the app to "go away" without closing it, you can minimize it. That way you can actually continue from where you left off. And I can (again) repeat my question: what benefit is there in running an app without any way of actually USING the app? The fact that it opens a fraction of a second faster the next time you launch the app?
[*]What is the benefit of maximizing every pointless window to take up the entire screen?
Well, I have noticed that it helps me focus on the task at hand when I can only see the one app I'm using.
[*]What exactly is the benefit of Flip 3D???
Beats me.
But seriously: I asked a question about the benefit the Mac-way offers when compared to the Windows-way. And what did you do? Say that there's no point in discussing it since it will not be changed, and then you proceeded to whine about Windows. "This is the way it has always been and this is the way it shall always be! So stop talking about it!"