I would very strongly encourage you to run Windows here. That does what you want, how you want.
I would equally strongly discourage you from trying to use your knowledge of Windows on macOS.
That way too often leads problems and confusion and frustrations. The two platforms are very different.
I would encourage using Time Machine, as that is integrated throughout macOS, including with macOS restores, re-installs, migrations, and other critical recovery-related sequences. Your add-on tool is not.
With volume signing and security and the signed system volume, macOS basically doesn’t do disk imaging anymore. macOS operates in two parts, a “sealed” and signed volume containing macOS, and a second volume containing the writable and user files.
AFAIK, all of the add-on tools all had a difficult time with that division, and many (all?) ended up using Apple asr to get that to work on restore. (And macOS itself doesn’t fall back to using images anywhere anymore, it merges an existing or re-installed macOS, or a new macOS install with the users’ files and data. Often from Time Machine, though migrating from an intermediate volume restored elsewhere also works. Something that doesn’t really exist on Windows—either the migration tooling, or the signed system volume.)
I’d also generally discourage anti-malware add-ons, add-on cleaners, first-few-hops add-on VPN client apps, and other such, too. The secure volume and the built-in scanning and remediation tools do quite well against the dreck, when Gatekeeper is not overridden.
