What an amazing story!
Windows is famous for its autorepair, partially because it loved to randomly autodestruct back in the day. Not surprising it has better repair capabilities than Mac.
My PC periodically goes blue screen at boot, which began after physical cleanup. After restart windows fixes the issue, so I just sleep-cycle it instead of powering on/off. But sometimes I have to restart anyway. Pretty sure any other OS would be long dead at this point.