MacOS and poor performance with network storage

My m1 MacBook Pro has always performed terribly in comparison to my windows workstations and other linux based VMS and containers which access the same storage. While other OSes can mount and saturate the network and storage throughput of my file servers, my MacBook cannot. Additionally, there is an extreme latency penalty when browsing a directory via terminal or via the file explorer if there is more then several dozen files. It seems to have these issues regardless if I mount storage via NFS or SMB. Over the years, I've attempted changing the file server to use more MacOS friendly settings in the server's .conf files, and setting up different distros and file systems for the shares; however, the performance has not significantly improved on my MacBook, while every other device works as expected. This seems like a common problem as there are lots of post out there with people complaining of a similar poor experience, and has for me persisted across several OS releases. I've reproduced the issue after performing a factory reset, so I doubt it's a configuration issue in MacOS. Is there really nothing that can be done, is there a recommended alternative to NFS or SMB, that performs better with MacOS?