This screenshot[1] is a great example of what you're talking about.
* Awful typography (especially bold text)
* Ugly gray background in foreground window
* Windows 95-era buttons in the foreground window
* Weird left padding in the (ugly) dock
* Terminal window has window controls on the right for some reason, and they look like they're from Windows?
All that said, it's still in preview (v0.4pre4), and these things can all be corrected. But I think they'd do well to slap "early preview" all over the place so people don't write it off.
I think there is a critical error in the judgement you make here, we can see that they advertise[0] the finesse of macOS. But what does this really mean? Let's think about it.
But before that, they clearly must be aware that... it's just bad (lightly put), yet it comes off very clearly that they're trying to copy[1] visual elements of Mac. So what does the author think finesse mean?
For my perspective, I'll quote the first definition I get on a Google search, "impressive delicacy and skill." We can argue that Mac does provide this (I believe it does, the experience is very opinionated (which also leads to stuff being intentional) and seamless across their devices, consistent (more than just the potential for consistency, which is what Windows provides), and so on, and so forth.
But, this is nothing like what we see in the current RavynOS. Nothing feels intentional. The advertising is misleading, and I don't think that it's something solvable in the future unless the person responsible for advertising and guaranteeing the presence of this "finesse" update their understanding of the word and clearly defines what that should mean in practice.
Update1: to add to my previous points, if my perception of the word "finesse" is correct, for something to have the "finesse of macOS," it wouldn't even have to look like it, but just achieve the same goal in it's own way (or Apple's way, that's "fine" but leaves a bad taste.)
* Awful typography (especially bold text)
* Ugly gray background in foreground window
* Windows 95-era buttons in the foreground window
* Weird left padding in the (ugly) dock
* Terminal window has window controls on the right for some reason, and they look like they're from Windows?
All that said, it's still in preview (v0.4pre4), and these things can all be corrected. But I think they'd do well to slap "early preview" all over the place so people don't write it off.
[1] https://ravynos.com/images/ravyn_0.4.0_pre_desktop.png