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I mean the best big tech "products" are FOSS as well. But I guess it depends on which definition of FOSS that you use.
Usually, nowadays, proprietary software is built on 95% FOSS and then you maybe have a thin layer with your own stuff (which will become FOSS in a year or two when there's someting better that can replace your own hack). The rest is content and marketing.
Proprietary software which doesn't have an objectively better FOSS counterpart (that I can come up with right now):
Many people bring up proprietary CAD and graphics software. Though I suspect that's a more subjective opinion. My experience is that proprietary CAD apps and the Adobe suite are buggy as hell. My experience is also that the people who use these softwares have learned how to cope with the legacy crap and they refuse to learn new and better ways.
I had to integrate Photoshop into a project a few years ago. The whole software just smelled huge legacy bad quality code base. Buggy as hell. But good marketing and/or user lockin I guess.
I don't consider anything from Apple to be good in an objective way. Unless you count social status symbols as an objective quality. I do consider price to be an objective quality though.
The only good things that has come out of Microsoft are open source. VS Code, dotnet core and Lean. Same goes for Google.
Proprietary CAD/design software is very subjective. I’ve seen many people saying that the proprietary stuff is more “professional” and that FOSS software isn’t. I don’t work in thise kind of workflows so I can’t comment on that, but my personal experience with things like kdenlive and inkscape have been AWESOME