Apple also invented their own key “Apple” now “CMD” for operation like copy / paste to explicitly not have the issue to overload the already know escape sequences. Windows being on a system without a normalized keyboard had to reuse keys that are common to keyboards used back then. Vertical integration played into apples cards even back then.

The location of the command key is also a lot more comfortable. Thumb vs pinky.

I setup my Linux system to use it because it's more consistent for copy pasting in a terminal.