Interesting list.
I better understand now how some people can suggest clean install over migration. I see you have less than a dozen entries dedicated to restoring system and app settings. I suspect if I tried to jot down all the settings I like to have for both macOS as well as my most used apps, it would easily span 300+ entries. And that’s before I even get into customizing dozens of window toolbars and sidebars to make them efficient for my use.
And hence I dread ever having to do a clean install. Even though I would be tempted to see just how much crud I could banish after having migrated across dozens of Macs for what by now must be almost 2 decades.
Now sure, I could attempt to copy over plist files instead of adjusting all those settings by hand. For some well-mannered apps that might work quite well actually.
For macOS I would be very skeptical though since I know from my own experience that it’s hard to nail down the exact file that truly contains the crucial parameters for a specific Finder detail — and that’s before we even get into plist vs. cfprefs.
If I had that all sorted out, I could finally get Finder to give me the default window I want. And yet, to this day, I still have to rely on scripting to get that done each and every time I Finder restarts (excruciatingly long story here and here and here and here and here).