That's an arrangement I also really appreciate. But the origins are different from what most might assume.

Apple introduced copy and paste in 1983 using the command key. Microsoft later copied the idea using the control key because PCs lacked a command key [1].

X had super, meta, hyper keys before the PC's stunted set of modifiers became a standard [2]. Microsoft and the PC are rarely the origins of things, mainly because CP/M, DOS and later Windows were poor, amateurish, and incomplete copies of other systems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_key_(keyboard_button)