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About the bonus peeve, it's definitely a double edged sword for me. I know exactly what you mean, and I hate those moments.
But at the same time, one thing I've come to dislike on GNOME is when I click a link in Thunderbird expecting it to open right away, and instead get a "Mozilla Firefox is ready" notification. It makes it feel a bit clunkier/slower when I've come to expect that interaction to be instant (and I wouldn't be surprised if that's precisely why it hasn't changed in most places).
So now instead of being bothered by one case, I get bothered by both cases lol. I wish there was more of a middle-ground, like middle clicking the link (or holding control/some other modifier key) would bypass that notification and just directly open/focus it.
I hear ya! I think that the NeXTSTEP way would be the middle way, as in, you click on the link, and Thunderbird gives up focus, which is then up for grabs, and Firefox take it. But if Firefox takes too long to start up, and you focus some other program, then it opens in the background. That'd be my ideal.
I never got the chance to use NeXTSTEP and that sounds great! Would be an excellent middle ground and is definitely one of those "I didn't know I needed this until now" sort of thing!