Why do you prefer having an app running (and owning the sole menu bar) when it has no GUI on screen?
I switched to Mac 20 years ago (when I started a decade-long stint as software engineer at Apple), and I still DETEST this behavior. Why the hell do I want some application that I just "closed" to continue owning the menu? Of course, this indicts the Mac's single menu bar, glued to the top of the screen. That mistake should have been fixed with the transition to OS X, but nope.
A related issue is Apple's half-assed implementation of Alt-Tab-style app switching. I was pretty impressed that they added this Windows-style feature, but less so after finding that it doesn't restore minimized apps. Again, why do I want to switch back to an app but not restore its UI? Fortunately there's a utility for that: Alt-Tab. https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app
It can also create a window for applications that lack them when you switch to them; this is a huge boon for Finder.
I switched to Mac 20 years ago (when I started a decade-long stint as software engineer at Apple), and I still DETEST this behavior. Why the hell do I want some application that I just "closed" to continue owning the menu? Of course, this indicts the Mac's single menu bar, glued to the top of the screen. That mistake should have been fixed with the transition to OS X, but nope.
A related issue is Apple's half-assed implementation of Alt-Tab-style app switching. I was pretty impressed that they added this Windows-style feature, but less so after finding that it doesn't restore minimized apps. Again, why do I want to switch back to an app but not restore its UI? Fortunately there's a utility for that: Alt-Tab. https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app
It can also create a window for applications that lack them when you switch to them; this is a huge boon for Finder.