I am mildly shocked after almost two decades of Mac use I never came across cmd+tilde thanks a lot!
Next try CMD+H to hide instead of minimising, like in Windows Land.
It doesn’t go to recently used, it CYCLES through the windows.to get to most recent used, you need to cycle through all the windows of the app. Who came up with that!?
I see this comment often and I usually pipe up to say that if you don’t have a US ANSI keyboard it can feel unintuitive. You can remap the hotkey to Option + Tab in those cases, easier to get used to.