A pet peeve switching from Windows to Mac--anyone notice this?

Quick rant: Something that bothers me every day when using my Mac is using the trackpad to zoom in and out by pinching. Compared to Windows, it is way less responsive, slower, and unreliable. Sometimes the zoom is delayed and only starts to happen when I'm already halfway through my gesture, and sometimes it doesn't zoom at all (I find this to be the case especially after I've just moved my cursor and try to zoom a split second after). On Windows, it's instantly responsive every time. Also, on Mac, once you've zoomed in on the point of your cursor, you cannot adjust the point of zoom with your cursor until you remove both fingers and zoom on a different point, whereas on Windows, I believe you can adjust where you're looking on a page while still in zoom mode by keeping both fingers down and moving them in the same direction. Does anybody relate or understand what I'm saying or am I tripping?