The macOS style popups are arguably worse.

Windows Vista may have been plagued by programs assuming administrator access for everything but at least it isolated the security prompt.

You can verify that you're interacting with a real UAC prompt (by pressing ctrl+alt+delete for instance, which can be configured to he required before approving a prompt).

Any program can replicate the macOS security dialogs. You just have to hope that you can safely enter the password to your account into one, or activate TouchID when prompted.