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Holding down option/alt and clicking on another window or the desktop hides all the other windows...
...way quicker than hunting down the right icon in the dock
Trackpad, Spaces, fullscreen apps, Three finger swipe gestures ... very fast, very easy. Also allows for keeping the the doc hidden and out of the way without having any impact on the workflow. Spaces also lets me keep multiple machines organized easily.
Hide = Command + H
On the Mac, the contextual menus came second. Command-H has been around forever and like almost everything else on the Mac is exposed in the main menu for the application. Contextual menus aren't a primary focus of the UI and UX of the Mac.
I use multiple applications in groups inside Spaces as well as full screen apps. At the moment, I have 5 spaces open and three fullscreen apps (Mail, Blender, Xcode). The spaces are organized into groups, like the one I have with a couple of iTerm panels and a GitHub browser session going to explore some MIDI libraries I'm looking at. Bouncing around through that and the builds and documentation and Xcode to work across two spaces is really trivial with Spaces and the three finger swipe gestures. The gestures you can do with the trackpad inside of the Mac UI are really worth getting to know. You can certainly get around on the Mac without one, but a trackpad is a core feature of the usability of the Mac.
It's shown in the 'app menu' for each application.
None of the 'dock menus or dock app menus' have any shortcuts shown, not even for 'empty trash' since the 'dock.app' is not the 'finder.app' and trash is deleted by the finder.app (it makes no sense for one app to show shortcuts for another app).
I haven't paid any attention since moving to Monterey, but mine wakes up for various things -- network activity, syncing with other devices, I think my NAS wakes it up when it wakes up for maintenance, etc. My iMac wakes up sometimes when I walk in the house and my iPhone wants to talk to it.
All sorts of things could be waking it depending on what's installed configured on the Mini or even other things on your network. I don't think sleeping Macs or iDevices is much of a priority for Apple anymore with all of the syncing and communication that apps and the OS's do now. It's more about how efficient they can be when waking to do these tasks.
Fullscreen Split-View?
The way I use it is simply if/when I have multiple windows on the screen (regardless of which apps) I take one window, long-tap on the green zoom button and shove the window to either left or right side and then pick one of the other windows that happens to be on the screen at the same time.
I must not understand the problem, but I have no issues running different combinations of apps. My standard layout starts with:
Space 1
Space 2
Space 3
Space 4
This is more of a general guideline than a fixed ruleset, as I don't yet have rules forcing apps or windows to a given space, but Space 1 ALWAYS has a terminal, occasionally two, and almost always a browser for documentation and quick access. The browsers on Space 2 are the primary "surfing" windows, though.
I frequently use the Mission Control view to move windows between spaces or displays, because I've been too lazy to yet integrate using hotkeys for that.
I don't use the Mac built-in split-screen view anymore as I find Yabai's BSP algorithm to be much more useful and flexible.
What I'm saying is different window instances of the same app are decoupled for me. I have no idea what your problem is. For example I have four instances of Edge open and they're isolated across spaces, screen spaced shared with other apps with no issues. It sounds like you're describing "sticky" windows, where the same window can be seen on multiple spaces, but that requires a helper app for most things other than picture-in-picture pop-outs.
Honestly most of the time I just use Command+Tab and switch the the app I need to use and seldom use full-screen but I do put windows side by side or above on-top of each other when needed.
In some cases I use F3 (System Preferences -> Mission Control) with a few shortcuts Control+Up to show all app windows, Control+Down to show all windows in the active app) and pick the app I need.
I also extensively use spotlight to launch apps among other things...
...before spotlight I was an avid user of LauncBar (It's free to use if you accept small 'breaks').
https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
Personally I seldom bump into annoyances and I'm not particularly fond of the way Windows or most Linux Window managers works, but that's just me... (I've been using Mac's since -94).
Yeah, we're definitely talking past each other. The only thing I can think is that this is behavior from something else you have installed, although I don't think it's Magnet. Mac doesn't have a background button. There's a minimize, but that solely minimizes the targetted window, not all instances of the given application. The only other OS-managed buttons are the Close and Fullscreen buttons.
Option-Clicking on the minimize button will minimize all instances of the app.
Using the minimize button only minimizes that window, unless you are Option-Clicking on the minimized button. If you want to restore a window to a different space than the one it was minimized on, Cmd-Click on the window's icon in the Dock. Note that the "restore to this space" feature only works if you don't have the Minimize Windows to App Icon option enabled in System Preferences.
I still think you're fighting Magnet or something because running multiple instances each of multiple apps is not painful, and it's easy to combine them in whatever layout you want.