Learn English – Is is grammatical to use a mass noun after the phrase “the majority of”

To my ear, your examples are marginally grammatical, at best.

It would be more idiomatic to say it this way:

I have books as good as yours.

The jobs are not as glamorous as people think.

They're not as glamorous as people think. ^{strike "jobs"}

They're not as glamorous, as jobs go, as people think.

The pattern is as {modifier} as.

Even the first sentence, which a percentage of native speakers would say, strikes other speakers as marginal.

I have as good a voice as you. I have as good a voice as you do. He has as good a voice as her.

I have a voice as good as yours. He has a voice as good as hers.

Many “uncountable” nouns can be used in a "countable form" when they refer to a broader meaning. The notion that using an s to pluralize an uncountable noun must be an error is a trap.

Words like waters, rices, sands, and oxygens are valid plural forms, although some of them are quite rare because you would only use them in unusual contexts. For example, a scientific textbook reads:

This ratio is variable since two types of O may be distinguished in the silicate anions: bridging oxygens and non-bridging oxygens.

I’m reminded of a debate that raged over at ELU some years ago about the plural of equipment. The accepted answer was downvoted and drew more than 30 comments and has since been deleted; it read:

Equipment can be both singular and plural. The word equipments is wrong/ungrammatical, though its use is prevalent.

Fact is, the use of equipments is uncommon, not prevalent, and it’s not necessarily wrong or ungrammatical in those usages.

You’ve uncovered an excellent example with the word paints. Most of the time, paint can be used to even when referring to a plural. For example, if I go to the store and buy a gallon of yellow paint and a gallon of red paint, I would probably say:

I bought paint today.

(not, “I bought paints today.”)

But there is nothing wrong with me saying:

There are many paints at the paint store.

In that case, I might be talking about how there are oil-based paints and water-based paints, latex paints and acrylic paints, matte paints and glossy paints, interior paints and exterior paints, etc.

I think what you say about Macmillan is on the right track, but off just a little bit:

The Macmillan Dictionary seems to confirm my guess, suggesting that "paint" is only a count noun in the meaning a set of small blocks or tubes containing paint of different colors that you use for making pictures. [emphasis added]

I think the word “only” is misplaced there; I think a better way to phrase it would be:

The Macmillan Dictionary seems to confirm my guess, suggesting that "paint" is a count noun in contexts such as a set of small blocks or tubes containing paint of different colors that you use for making pictures.

It isn’t practical for a dictionary to list every sense of how a word can be used; the best dictionaries can do is provide a suite of general examples.

Your original sentence could probably be written either way; I would consider both grammatically correct:

• Jackson Pollock dropped paints on canvas seemingly at random.
• Jackson Pollock dropped paint on canvas seemingly at random.

However, the array of paint on a Pollock canvas is so widely varied, from an art perspective, it almost seems a shame to use the singular.