Oh, you use the strange fullscreen mode. That’s beyond maximizing. And it’s not popular, for good reason.

You are intentionally making window management more difficult on yourself by treating it like an old school iPad. But that clarifies why you consider it difficult.

Just for clarity, maximizing a window is scaling it as big as it goes. Putting a window or app into fullscreen mode is different. If the menu bar is hidden, you are not maximizing.